The Desire Quotes

“stress is the gap between what we expect from God’s creations and what we’re actually receiving. Since only God can meet our deepest needs, the more we look to people and things to satisfy us, the more gaps we’ll have and the more our frustration will increase.”
― Gary Smalley, The Desire

“Forgetting what lies behind . . .”
― Dan Walsh, The Desire

“I guess the idea is memorizing Scripture. This chapter on humility says our minds drift through thousands of thoughts each day. Many of them draw us away into doubt and fear. Our minds need something better to hold on to.”
― Dan Walsh, The Desire

“God’s not expecting me to do big things for him or try to impress him with my great faith. He wants me to depend on him . . . for everything.”
― Dan Walsh, The Desire

“But the truth is, we need him all the time, we just don’t realize it. As long as we think we can handle our problems, that’s what we do. We handle them, or at least we try. We don’t trust God. We don’t even turn to him. We just . . . try to figure it out on our own. Then a trial like this comes along, and we find out just how helpless we really are. It’s so big, it overwhelms us. We realize we can’t fix it no matter how hard we try.”
― Dan Walsh, The Desire

“It says when you’re helpless and you know you don’t have what it takes to make your situation work, it’s kind of a gift. That’s where humility comes in. Humility’s all about realizing how much we need God’s help.”
― Dan Walsh, The Desire

“Apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)”
― Dan Walsh, The Desire

“That’s how loving God with all our hearts reduces stress. The more we look to him as the only one who can make a difference, the less we look to things that can’t truly help us. The stress goes away because the gaps get closed. God fills our hearts with more love and joy and peace while we wait for our circumstances to get better. With our stress and anger no longer controlling us, we get freed up to care about others instead of always thinking about ourselves.”
― Dan Walsh, The Desire

“the author said stress is the gap between what we expect from God’s creations and what we’re actually receiving. Since only God can meet our deepest needs, the more we look to people and things to satisfy us, the more gaps we’ll have and the more our frustration will increase.”
― Dan Walsh, The Desire

“And he does. He’s the only one who can. Our tendency is to expect things from his creation that only he can give us.”
― Dan Walsh, The Desire