Quotes About Yearning

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

God, either you come down here tonight and touch me, or I'm going to die and come up there and touch you.

God, I'm glad I'm not me.

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.

I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.

What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.

God, I want to die in you.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.