What do Christian think of desire

First sorry i'm no english speaker, and i know little about Christianity. I have got homework to learn what are the attitudes to desire in Christian. But I searched the internet and found nothing useful. So I came here. There are two questions.
1. Assuming this situation that a man suffers because he cannot reach his desire, how can i try to comfort him using view of Christianity.
2.Could u plz tell me what's the attitude to desire in Christianity, in general or in specific perspective(fame, wealth). Specific introduction is appreciated.

I really hope someone Christian could help me. Thank u very much !

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The attitude is that you get what you need but not always what you want. Similar to how professing to be a Christian to manipulate the forum so you can get an answer for your assignment is something you want but not something you necessarily need to to.

As Christians, our desire should be to know God more deeply. In other words, our desire should be to "have" God. We should not desire the things that God may or may not give us. If we have to suffer in order to know God better, then we should embrace that suffering. Whatever it takes to have God in our lives more, that is what we should embrace in order to have the One Thing that we desire.

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"Not because you are?"
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Most of our desires stem from simply the way humans were made and evolved...Desire is part of our genetic coding. I don't hold that we came from apes, humans certainly evolved psychologically and physically based on many enviroment factors. Men and women are somewhat different.

Desire actually stems from the need to survive. We desire food, shelter, health, companionship, etc. We to desire to have sex, due to our hormonal genetics..

Culture also effects desire and this is often dangerous. Our culture says thin women are beautiful, so women will do anything to be bone thin, in other cultures more tribal, men prefer bigger women and would see a skinny woman as unattractive.

We all have many desires, what we have to do is balance them, keep them in control and not harm others or ourselves in fulfilling our desires.

Often, due to circumstances we can't fulfill all our desires, injury, disease, etc...Paul says in the bible to learn to be " content in whatsoever state I'm in". He wasn't saying don't try, but often life puts us in situations where we're stuck and we have to refocus our desires. For instance I was once well off, but striken by a severe nerve disease, over a period of years I lost my business, went on disability...went from upper middle class to poverty....it was quite a change, I do without many things, but it does no good to be depressed about it.

Here's a Christian understanding of desire.
There are good desires, and bad ones. God made us to enjoy things, and we should desire each thing in proportion to its value. Something that is worth more should be desired more. To know God and be his friend is the greatest thing, and so that should be desired the most. A bad desire is any desire for something that is harmful to ourselves or others, or that gets in the way of a greater good thing.
If someone desires something he cannot get, a Christian would tell him, "God knows what is good for you better than you do, and he also wants to do what is best for you. Trust him to make possible the best thing for you at the right time. For now, continue to get to know God more, do what is right, and remember the good things you do have and be thankful for them."
I hope this is helpful for you. If you ask, I will find some verses from the Bible about desire. What I wrote is just from my own understanding of it.
I suppose you are a Buddhist? I am interested in your understanding of desire. Do you believe all desire is bad, or only some of them? Do Buddhists desire Nirvana?

Christianity is not about fame and wealth, at least not worldly fame and wealth. We Christians "desire" to please the will of God the Father. We desire to trust in God's will.

If for some reason, God blesses us with wealth, we should use that wealth to fulfill God's will in our lives. The same with fame.

Nothing this world can provide man is useful to Christians unless it comes through God.