Quotes about Yearning
His voice might be stern, but in the sternness there was still the accent of yearning love; his eyes might flash fire, but the flame was the flame of love.
— William Barclay
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.
— William Law
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.
— David Brainerd
The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.
— Francis Chan
When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.
— Jentezen Franklin
How many people have you made homesick for God?
— Oswald Chambers
How many people have you made homesick for God?
— Oswald Chambers
How many people have you made homesick for God?
— Oswald Chambers
How many people have you made homesick for God?
— Oswald Chambers
How many people have you made homesick for God?
— Oswald Chambers
Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
— Francis Chan
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
— George Eliot