Quotes about Thirst

Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.

Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heart of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating hands over the fountain and lap up His life with unquenchable thirst.

Believing there is no God does not make the thirst go away.

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

Thomas Aquinas writes: "There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

To hunger is to be human, but to hunger for God is to feed on Him. Hunger and thirst after His righteousness and feed on Him in your heart. Taste and see that the Lord is good; it is He who will fill you to satisfaction.

I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." That may be true. But it's also true that you can feed a horse salt and make him thirsty.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.