Quotes about Yearning
Die Gesellschaft stellt eifersüchtig denen nach, die sich von ihr ausschließen, und wird kommen und an die Pforte pochen.
— Joseph Campbell
Die Gesellschaft stellt eifersüchtig denen nach, die sich von ihr ausschließen, und wird kommen und an die Pforte pochen.
— Joseph Campbell
What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
— Publilius Syrus
What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can have what we wanted we want something else. It's human nature in a single luminous story. Our sin. Our fall. Our problem.
— R. Joseph Hoffmann
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us
— Francois Rabelais
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else. C. S. Lewis
— Randy Alcorn
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." —C. S. Lewis
— Randy Alcorn
Atheism is an empty cup crying out to be filled, while religion is an empty cup appearing to be filled.
— Randy Alcorn
the video Homesick for Heaven: www.epm.org/homesick
— Randy Alcorn