Quotes about Longing
The common word for this inner abiding place of the Spirit, which is also a place of longing, has usually been the word soul. We have our soul already—we do not "get" it by any purification process
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God will always give you exactly what you truly want and desire. Desire deeply, desire yourself, desire God, desire everything good, true and beautiful.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
— Rick Warren
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
— John Mayer
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
— Edith Stein
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
— St. Augustine
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
— Nicole Kidman
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
— Nicole Kidman
It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.
— Sheila Walsh
The sorrows of the world are, because we live too little in the future.
— Elias Canetti
Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
My heart was saying, Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long. The Lord was answering, I must teach you to long for something better.
— Elisabeth Elliot