Quotes about Longing

Lord, the range of Thy power, the touch of Thy grace, the breathing of Thy Spirit, how I long for these to bring me face to face with Thee; Lord, by Thy grace cause me to appear before Thee.

Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS12

Your heart will never be satisfied in things. No, your heart will be satisfied only in the Giver of the things. If you seek happiness, happiness will elude you.

What will you hook your heart to today in the hope that it will give you life?

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."5

At the end of the day, what do you long for: for God's grace to do its work or for more of the stuff that this physical created world has to offer?

We have forever inside us, and it creates a natural disappointment with the brokenness of the here and now.

It is sad how many people constantly live in the schizophrenic craziness of eternity amnesia. We were created to live in a forever relationship with a forever God forever. We were designed to live based on a long view of life. We were made to live with one eye on now and one eye on eternity. You and I simply cannot live as we were put together to live without forever.

This physical, created world, with all of its sights, sounds, locations, experiences, and relationships, has no capacity to make your heart content. This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest. You heart will rest only when it finds its rest in God, and God alone.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. JOHN PIPER9