Quotes about Longing
Life is all about what we look to to fill us.
— Paul David Tripp
there is a deeper hunger within you than the physical hunger with which you are so familiar.
— Paul David Tripp
your body hungers to be filled, but your soul hungers even more.
— Paul David Tripp
If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
— Paulo Coelho
Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.
— Pete Greig
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
— Peter Kreeft
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
— Genesis 31:30
“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”
— Genesis 45:28
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
— Numbers 11:4
For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.
— Deuteronomy 1:46
Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
— Deuteronomy 28:32
And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
— 2 Samuel 13:39