Quotes about Longing

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

My heart was saying, Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long. The Lord was answering, I must teach you to long for something better.

But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.

Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.

I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength.

But the tender grace of a day that is deadWill never come back to me.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro' My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.