Quotes about Longing

O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?

The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine.

Sometimes Maggie thought she could have been contented with absorbing fancies; if she could have had all Scott's novels and all Byron's poems!—then, perhaps, she might have found happiness enough to dull her sensibility to her actual daily life.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

I was in love with loving.

Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new

We must beg the Holy Spirit, with ardent longing, to give us these fruits. The Holy Ghost alone knows how to bring to light the sweetness hidden away under the rugged exterior of the words of the Law. We must go to the Holy Ghost for interior guidance.

Where is the person whose heart is so passionately in love with the promised glory of heaven that he feels like an exile and a sojourner on the earth? Where

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment

O! for the long day, and the high sun, and the fair garden, and the King's great city up above these visible heavens!

Our best fare here is hunger.