Quotes About Longing

You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was a reflection of a reflection in a revolving door.

Oh, el anhelo payasesco de quienes no han sido amados tal cual son!

How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm

misgivings , n . Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

Can the memory of love be worth more than its presence and reality?

Where do you come from?" "From the planet of a distant sun, called Earth." "What for?" "I was tired of vulgarity.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

Every fear hides a wish.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

Dante to Abby: My God you are going to kill me. Again

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between him and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit

Don't trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don't settle for less, wait for God's best.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

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.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.