Quotes about Longing

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154

As to embrace me she inclined, I waked she fled and day brought back my night.

in the meantime praying the God and Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who has, of the riches of his grace, recovered us from a state of enmity into a condition of communion and fellowship with himself, that both he that writes, and they that read the words of his mercy, may have such a taste of his sweetness and excellencies therein, as to be stirred up to a farther longing after the fulness of his salvation, and the eternal fruition of him in glory.

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.