Quotes about Longing
We love even when our love is not requited.
— Mortimer Adler
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
— St. Augustine
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
— Thomas Merton
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
— John Updike
WHEN OUR DEEPEST DESIRE IS NOT THE THINGS OF GOD, OR A FAVOR FROM GOD, BUT GOD HIMSELF, WE CROSS A THRESHOLD.
— Max Lucado
Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.
— Max Lucado
You long for the fruit of the Spirit. But how do you bear this fruit? Try harder? No, hang tighter. Our assignment is not fruitfulness but faithfulness.
— Max Lucado
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
— Maya Angelou
I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.
— Maya Angelou
Reality began its tedious crawl back into their reasoning. After all, they were needy and hungry and despised and dispossessed, and sinners the world over were in the driver's seat. How long, merciful Father? How long? A
— Maya Angelou
God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.
— Beth Moore
Every human being longs for unfailing love. Lavish love. Focused love. Radical love. Love we can count on.
— Beth Moore