DESIRE

In our desire after God let us keep always in mind that God also hath desire, and His desire is toward the sons of men, and more particularly toward those sons of men who will make the once-for-all decision to exalt Him over all.1

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Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.2

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Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man’s character.3

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Unsanctified desire will stop the growth of any Christian life. Wrong desire perverts the moral judgment so that we are unable to appraise the desired object at its real value.4

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Yet for all God’s good will toward us He is unable to grant us our heart’s desires till all our desires have been reduced to one.5

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