Quotes About Yearning

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

I don't believe in God, but I miss him.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.

When you touch me, good God.

It's been a few days since I've seen my kids. My hearts racing; I can't wait to hold them. This is just a glimpse into God's heart at Mass.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

How terrible the need for God.

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.