Love Quote by Edwin Louis Cole

It is a neat theological two-step: first God plants the craving, then God cashes it in. Edwin Louis Cole, a muscular-evangelical voice best known for discipling men, frames desire not as a suspicious impulse to be restrained but as a divinely issued assignment. The line is built to disarm an old Protestant anxiety that wanting things is automatically worldly. If the desire originates in God, then the believer can pursue it without the guilty aftertaste. Better: the pursuit itself becomes obedience.

The subtext is a carefully managed surrender. You are invited to feel personally called while being quietly redirected away from self-authorship. Your ambition is validated, but only after it’s laundered through divine intent. That’s why the sentence is so pastorally effective: it preserves agency (you realize desires) while keeping sovereignty intact (God authors, God enables). The logic also inoculates against the charge that faith is passive. Cole offers a spirituality of energized action, not just waiting.

Context matters: Cole wrote in a late-20th-century American evangelical ecosystem increasingly shaped by self-help idioms, “purpose” language, and leadership culture. This quote bridges altar and office. It sounds like reassurance to the uncertain and a permission slip to the driven. It also functions as a diagnostic: if your desire is holy, doors will open; if it isn’t, the lack of “enablement” can be read as correction rather than failure.

The catch is the theological circularity, which can be comforting or controlling depending on who holds the interpretive power. If God writes the script and supplies the energy, dissent starts to look like spiritual illiteracy.