Quotes about Longing

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.

The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then I want to go where they do.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

My soul was this day, at turns, sweetly set on God. I longed to be with Him that I might behold His glory. I felt sweetly disposed to commit all to Him, even my dearest friends, my dearest flock, my absent brother, and all my concerns for time and eternity. Oh, that His kingdom might come in the world; that they might all love and glorify Him, for what He is in Himself; and that the blessed Redeemer might 'see the travail of his soul, and be satisfied! Oh, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! Amen.