Quotes About Yearning

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

Unhappiness was my god.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

Do you want to see God more than you desire security?

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

Oh, to know God's private address.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.

... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.

I bring up God alot in my show, know why? Because I miss him.

Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?