Quotes About Longing

I am athirst for God, the living God.

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

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

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

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.

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

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

Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.

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.

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

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

What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

Desire can make anything into a god.

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Please, God, send me something to adore.

God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more." ~Shane~

God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.