Quotes about Longing

No three words have greater force than "I want you, " greater strength than "I need you, " greater might than "I miss you, " and greater power than "I love you.

Love is like candy floss. you crave it and it looks very promising, but if you try to satisfy your hunger with it, there is nothing. Only a sweet aftertaste - if you're lucky.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself

That which we want most is always in the embryonic distance of the future. Our power to acquire is always a decade or so behind our power to DESIRE! And, if we catch up with the thing we want we no longer want it!

Life is an everlasting question-mark! That which we want most is always in the embryonic distance of the future. Our power to acquire is always a decade or so behind our power to DESIRE! And, if we catch up with the thing we want we no longer want it!

It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns.

The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.

Concupierunt concupiscentiam in deserto. . . . Numquid poterit parare mensam populo suo?

All those days and nights were without romance, horrible.

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Think how your life would be changed if you passionately longed for and lived every day as if this would be the moment Jesus would return!