Quotes about Longing

But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.

Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.

I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength.

But the tender grace of a day that is deadWill never come back to me.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Nichelle staring at Jack.

When you are bored, restless, longing for something more, unfulfilled, feeling like you've settled, haunted by the sense of being trapped in your own life, these are the deep waters of your soul speaking to you, telling you something is wrong, something is missing, something needs to change.

We spend so much time searching and longing for solid ground, only to discover it's better than that. There's Spirit. You try this, you try that. You throw yourself into it, and you hold it loosely. You give it everything you have as you acknowledge that this is what we're doing now, who knows what will come next?