R. C. Sproul Quotes
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
R. C. Sproul
Quotes to Explore
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Saint Augustine
It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
Gael Garcia Bernal
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
Nathan Fillion
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
Earl Weaver
We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
Dan Millman
It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
Rachel Bloom
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius
I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
Mahalia Jackson
The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
Baha'u'llah
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus
God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
Oral Roberts
There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
Damien Rice
