Quotes about Thirst
What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.
— Robin Sharma
It is only into the thirst of an empty soul that the streams of living waters flow. Ever thirsting is the secret of never thirsting.
— Andrew Murray
We wish in a halfhearted way to be better than we are. But how few there are who truly ''hunger and thirst after righteousness''; how few who intensely long for a life of obedience and the continual consciousness of being pleasing to God.
— Andrew Murray
God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.
— Pope Benedict XVI
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
— Aldous Huxley
No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.
— Ravi Zacharias
When you put the Gospels in someone's life who hasn't walked any journeys yet, who hasn't lost, suffered, longed, and thirsted for anything, they will use it for power - I promise you. For personal power, reputational power, economic power, because that's where the ego always goes. We will use God for our own purposes which is the ultimate idolatry. But if you have made the journey into powerless somehow, I will be happy to put the gospel in your hands.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.
— John Updike
To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe.
— Etienne Gilson
I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.
— Virginia Woolf