Top 9 Passionate Desire Quotes

The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we go through the door of giving ourselves to God in worship we find that God comes through that same door and gives

The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we go through the door of giving ourselves to God in worship we find that God comes through that same door and gives Himself to us. God's insistence that we worship Him is not really a demand at all but an offer-an offer to share Himself with us. When God asks us to worship Him, He is asking us to fulfill the deepest longing in Himself, which is His passionate desire to give Himself to us. It is what Martin Luther called "the joyful exchange."

Selwyn Hughes

Doors, Law, Passionate Desire

Selwyn Hughes (1997). “Every Day Light: Daily Inspirations from Selwyn Hughes and Thomas Kinkade”, B & H Publishing Group

Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

Rebecca Solnit

Thinking, Passionate Desire, Identity

Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.26, Canongate Books

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.

Martin Seligman

Giving Up, Believe, Passionate Desire

Martin E. P. Seligman (1998). “Learned Optimism”, Free Press

That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

Frederick William Robertson

Prayer, Passionate Desire, Expectations

Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.33

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

Dalai Lama

Letting Go, Attachment, Passionate Desire

Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.11, Univ of California Press

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Character, Passionate Desire, Justice

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

Jean Helion

Home, Passionate Desire, Drawing

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

Joyce Meyer

Heart, Opportunity, Passionate Desire

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

Agnes Repplier

Loyalty, Passionate Desire, Belief

Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute