Quotes About Yearning

If'n Ya Wanna Go Back

My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.....

What a sad misfortune is to have body in one place and soul in another...I love to feel free...

How dangerous it is when our souls are gasping for God but we're too distracted flirting with the world to notice.

Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or getting wrapped up in the affections of an adulterous relationship are all desperate attempts to silence the cries of a hungry soul.

How it must break His heart when we walk around so desperate for a love He waits to give us each and every day.

God made us to crave—to desire eagerly, want greatly, and long for Him. But Satan wants to do everything possible to replace our craving for God with something else.

Look for Me. Long for Me. Experience unbroken companionship with Me.

God made us to crave—to desire eagerly, want greatly, and long for Him.

But if you are desperately hungry, a dish of just about anything is hard to turn away. Our souls and our stomachs are alike in this way.

God made us capable of craving so we'd have an unquenchable desire for more of Him, and Him alone.

So, what's really going on here? I believe God made us to crave.

Think about the definition of the word craving. How would you define it? Dictionary.com defines craving as something you long for, want greatly, desire eagerly, and beg for.2 Now consider this expression of craving: "How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! My soul yearns, event faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God" (Psalm 84:1 – 2).

Yes, we were made to crave — long for, want greatly, desire eagerly, and beg for—God. Only God. But Satan wants to do everything possible to replace our craving for God with something else.

We were made to crave— long for, want greatly, desire eagerly, and beg for— God. Only God.

That's how God created us -- with a longing to be filled. It's a longing God instilled to draw us into deep intimacy with Him.

God made us to crave so we'd always desire more of Him.

God seems far away and French fries are right around the corner at the drive-thru.

How tragic that when we chase something in this world, we're actually running away from the stable trust and secure love our souls long for the most.

God never intended for us to want anything more than we want Him.

Alone! -- that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

The dead are jealous, jealous, jealous and they will do anything to keep you from the living, the lucky living. They will argue with you, and distract you, and if that doesn't work, they will even let you hug them, and dance for you, and kiss you, and laugh, anything to keep you. The dead are selfish. Jealous. Lonely. Desperate. Hungry. ("The Chambered Fruit")

As long as we try to fill this yearning with things other than God and activities other than God's purposes, we are unfulfilled and incomplete.