Quotes about Longing
WHEN OUR DEEPEST DESIRE IS NOT THE THINGS OF GOD, OR A FAVOR FROM GOD, BUT GOD HIMSELF, WE CROSS A THRESHOLD.
— Max Lucado
Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.
— Max Lucado
You long for the fruit of the Spirit. But how do you bear this fruit? Try harder? No, hang tighter. Our assignment is not fruitfulness but faithfulness.
— Max Lucado
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
— Maya Angelou
I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.
— Maya Angelou
Reality began its tedious crawl back into their reasoning. After all, they were needy and hungry and despised and dispossessed, and sinners the world over were in the driver's seat. How long, merciful Father? How long? A
— Maya Angelou
God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.
— Beth Moore
Every human being longs for unfailing love. Lavish love. Focused love. Radical love. Love we can count on.
— Beth Moore
I looked at his hand, my insides wrenched and wrestling with wanting and not wanting to hold it. I'd held the dying hands of perfect strangers. But only strangers are perfect. It's the known ones that muddle.
— Beth Moore
My soul needed a place it could live. I longed for my defeats to be infrequent visitations, not my victories. Beloved, our personalized lands of earthly promise are places we're invited by God to dwell in Christ. It's high time we stopped dropping in and started taking up residency.
— Beth Moore
Oh, God, give us a longing—not for the sin of this world to be judged—but for the sinners of this world to be forgiven.
— Beth Moore
My body faints for You in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water. Psalm 63:1
— Beth Moore