Quotes about Longing
There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy.
- Leonard Sweet
You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
- Lewis Carroll
I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.
- Stormie Omartian
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
- Khalil Gibran
A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.
- Deepak Chopra
I want to know what passion is, she heard him saying. I want to feel something strongly.
- Aldous Huxley
I want to know what passion is,' he said. 'I want to feel something strongly. We are all grown-up intellectually and during working hours,' he went on, 'but we are infants where feeling and desire are concerned.
- Aldous Huxley
I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
- Aldous Huxley
Has your worship or devotional experience lately provided you with ravishing tastes of what A. W. Tozer called the "piercing sweetness" 7 of Christ, only to leave you with a divine discontent that desires more?
- Donald Whitney
In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.
- Randy Alcorn
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
- Cormac McCarthy
Western wind, when will thou blow, The small rain down can rain? Christ, if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!
- Anonymous