Quotes about Longing
You are God's idea, and He longs to see the treasure that is in your heart. As we learn to dream with God we become co-laborers with Him.
- Bill Johnson
Often the trials we mourn are really gateways into the good things we long for.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
What all of us long for in our hearts, at Christmastime and always, is to feel bound together in love with the sweet assurance that it can last forever.
- Henry B. Eyring
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
- CS Lewis
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
- Ian Mckellen
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
- John Donne
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is needing to be loved.
- John Lennon
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
- Mortimer Adler
Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.
- Mother Teresa
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
- John Donne