Quotes about Longing
There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disseminated, such as books and churches, but they will not hear the Word of the Lord. Instead of receiving a message to satisfy their spiritual longings, they will hear a sermon on some current political or social problem, or a sermonette on art and literature. And so they wander from one place to another, going from hope to despair, and eventually giving up.
— Billy Graham
The longing of your breast is to be a living flame, ignited with the exhilaration of beholding His beauty, worshiping Him with uninhibited abandon, and deployed into the world with self-controlled, calculated zeal that does not love its own life even unto death.
— Bob Sorge
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
— St. Augustine
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
— St. Augustine
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
— St. Augustine
Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.
— St. Augustine
This is nothing, Walks the Fire. My anger came when you would not speak of your sadness.I thought you longed for the whites,that you cared nothing for us,that you feared telling me.To have many sons would be a wonderful thing. I cannot lie about that.But if having many sons means I must take another woman, then I would choose no sons and keep Walks the Fire in my tepee.Your heart cries out for children....my heart cries out only for you,best-beloved.
— Stephanie Grace Whitson
Father, we long for the clarity of Your truth to dawn upon our minds and for the immensity of Your love to grip our hearts.
— Alistair Begg
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
— Erica Jong
If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
— Marianne Williamson
The truth is many singles deeply desire and pray for marriage.
— Eric Metaxas
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
— Oscar Wilde