Quotes about Longing
There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound
- Paul David Tripp
Because we live for our happiness, happiness always eludes us—???because every fulfilled desire is followed by yet another desire.
- Paul David Tripp
Life is all about what we look to to fill us.
- Paul David Tripp
there is a deeper hunger within you than the physical hunger with which you are so familiar.
- Paul David Tripp
your body hungers to be filled, but your soul hungers even more.
- Paul David Tripp
If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
- Paulo Coelho
Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.
- Pete Greig
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
- Peter Kreeft
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
- Genesis 31:30
“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”
- Genesis 45:28
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
- Numbers 11:4
For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.
- Deuteronomy 1:46