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Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on

Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Graham Greene

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Louis Ginsberg

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Robert Collier

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

William Law

Those who desire more centralized government often disguise their desire for control as charity and progress.

Brett Blair

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

Adrian Rogers

... be troubled by unbelievers when they say that this promise of rewards makes the Christian's life a mercenary affair. There are different kinds of reward. There is the reward which has no natural connection with things you do to earn it, and is quite foreign to the desires that ought to accompany those things. Money is not the natural reward of love; that is why we call a man mercenary if he marries a woman for the sake of her money. But marriage is the proper reward for a real lover, and he is not mercenary ...

C. S. Lewis

1465. A Disciple After God’s Own Heart

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the kind of sacrificial love that God requires of his special messengers and covenant bearers? Will he be willing to sacrifice himself, his life, to save his people if circumstances call for it or God requires it? For that’s the only kind of leader God desires, one after God’s own heart. This story is a kind of “coming of age ritual,” a “covenant worthiness” ritual for Isaac. And both do not fail. Our second clue in the story is the word “olah.” The kind of “sacrifice” that is called for ...

1466. Dealing with T-A-R-E-ists

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... out, as I discovered the year I was eight. Just before Christmas that year I decided I needed to “fix” the family Christmas tree decorations and, in the process of straightening the star on the top of the tree, pulled the whole thing over on top of me! My desire to immediately want to make things right doesn’t go over too well in our relationship to our grown-up daughters, either. My wife Debbie and I can’t fix things for them anymore; we can’t kiss the scraped knee and make it all better. All we ...

1467. A Working God

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... parable of the net teaches with the separation of the good and bad fish, there are and will be real dire consequences to our rejection of God’s gracious reign. But what scripture proclaims and we believe is that the final word God desires to speak over us is not rejection. God’s desire is that none should perish, but that all should come to repentance through faith in Jesus Christ. In Christ we know that God is for us, not against us; there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, and ...

1468. Standing in the Forecastle

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Ron Love

... in 1181. Francis was born into a very wealthy family, and in that environment, he focused his life on money and glory. Growing up, his father’s wealth allowed Francis to live a life of debauchery. In his quest for glory he joined the Fourth Crusades. In his snobbish desire to display his wealth he ordered that a suit of armor be made for him decorated with gold with a magnificent cloak. But Francis only got one day’s ride into the crusade when he had a dream in which God told him he had life all wrong ...

1469. The Near-Sighted Pastor

Humor

There is a story about a near-sighted pastor. Someone passed him a note. The note read like this: "John Jones, having gone to sea, his wife desires prayers from the congregation for his safety." But as the near-sighted pastor read the note, he misplaced a comma and the sentence came out like this: "John Jones, having gone to see his wife, desires prayers from the congregation for his safety."

1470. Are you a G.O.A.T.?

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... vital to a kingdom of heaven kind of world. We live in a world today in which we often advocate for a philosophy that says, “the ends justify the means.” We believe often today that behavior doesn’t matter, that personality doesn’t matter, as long as the desired end goal is achieved. Scripture disagrees. Jesus is clear. It matters why we do things. It matters how we do them. And it matters that we do them. A flock full of sheep and goats may look the same and even behave in some similar ways some of ...

1471. We Would Like to See Jesus

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... to men and women and young people and boys and girls today: “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” That is the most sincere desire of our hearts. We want to see Jesus. We want to experience him for ourselves. A second-hand report is not enough. We long ... told him that Charles had passed away in the night. (7) Charles nearly missed seeing Jesus, but it’s never too late if that is the desire of a person’s heart. Jesus came to show us that one day we can live with God. And we don’t have to deserve it. ...

1472. Enduring the Trials of Faith

Romans 4:13-25

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... . Trials of faith present themselves in our spiritual life as well. We pray for certain things, whether it be the health and prosperity of someone we know, the answer to a difficult dilemma, or hundreds of other possible needs and desires. We become frustrated, however, when the answer that we desire does not come in the time frame we want or need. We think that God is not listening, that he is too busy or even unconcerned. We never consider the possibility that the answer the Lord gives might be different ...

1473. A Costly Cross

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... sacred night in order that we might know how much we mean to God. Isaiah foretold of his agony hundreds of years before Christ was born. He wrote of Christ: “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. “Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely, he took up our pain and bore our suffering, Yet we considered ...

1474. Justice

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Will Willimon

... who wouldn't forgive, and us. After our brief burst of generosity toward the servant at the beginning of the story, weren't we delighted to see him hang at the end? The ungrateful little wretch! The king, the servant, in their lack of forgiveness, their fundamental desire to see justice done and just desserts received, are just like us. Junk bond king, Michael Millkin. I shed no tears when he was led away in chains, hustled out of his stretch limo and Palm Beach pad and did not pass go, did not collect $200 ...

1475. Tales from the Field

John 10:11-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... questions that serve what I like to call the “membership fallacy.” The truth is so much greater. Membership is not a single church or group, a group of same-minded individuals who practice the same or want everything according to their own preferences and desires. But entry into Jesus’ kingdom means freedom from the fold, and entry into a world of difference, where diversity is celebrated, and all people are free in Him to be whoever they were created to be. The only stipulation is to follow His voice ...

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 1451 to 1475 of 4959 results

Graham Greene

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Louis Ginsberg

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Robert Collier

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

William Law

Those who desire more centralized government often disguise their desire for control as charity and progress.

Brett Blair

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

Adrian Rogers

C. S. Lewis

1465. A Disciple After God’s Own Heart

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1466. Dealing with T-A-R-E-ists

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

1467. A Working God

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52