Quotes about Longing

All these searchings and hungerings and longings that are in your heart, I tell you, they are the drawings of the divine magnet, Christ Jesus.

Where there is not intense longing to be kept to the utmost from sinning, and to be brought into the closest possible union with the Saviour, the thought of being crucified with Him can find no entrance.

Do you love Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and not like Him?

God's love, and I begin to long for God's love in a very different sense from which I have sought it so selfishly—as a comfort, a joy, a happiness, and a pleasure to myself. I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love."

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

His wish still continued, but his hope grew less.

I've come back for you, my love, my life. Let me look at you, keep you, never let go of you.

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me,Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of Love was born.

But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?