Quotes about Longing
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
- AW Tozer
... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
- Julian of Norwich
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
- Hannah More
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
- Teresa of Avila
God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.
- John Bevere
God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.
- Beth Moore
Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?
- AW Tozer
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind".
- Billy Graham
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
- Brennan Manning
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.
- William Law
Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.
- NT Wright
Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.
- John Piper