God speaks to us through our desires, then as we lay them at His feet, He helps us sort them out and quiets our hearts to accept what He has already prepared.
Desire
Catherine Marshall
Dreams carried around in one’s heart for years, if they are dreams that have God’s approval, have a way of suddenly materializing.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.
Miguel Cordero-Munoz
The heart is rich when it is content, and it is always content when its desires are fixed on God.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Prayer should be free, spontaneous, vital fellowship between the created person and the personal Creator, in which Life should touch life. The more that prayer becomes the untrammeled, free, and natural expression of the desires of our hearts, the more real it becomes.
Anselm
0 Lord our God, grant us grace to desire Thee with our whole heart; that, so desiring, we may seek, and seeking find Thee; and so finding Thee may love Thee; and loving Thee, may hate those sins from which Thou hast redeemed us.
John Owen
What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?
Author Unknown
God’s Word needs to become the object of your desire, your deepest longing, and most intense craving.
Author Unknown
Faith asks us neither to destroy nor to exalt human desire but to gather it into an even greater desire: the thirst for God.