Spiritual Desires Quotes

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.