Quotes about Yearning

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love

When god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

This time the petition rose from deep inside her heart. Asking for the fire of the Holy Spirit to be kindled anew. And for her to reach toward God with that hunger, that yearning, that desire to know and serve and love in His name. All around her shouts of wonder and joy rang out as others received the touch they had requested in their bodies and souls.

If only my heart were stone.

If only my heart were stone.

Wherever she was, at work, in the food line, in the dormitory, Betsie spoke to those around her about His nearness and His yearning to come into their lives. As her body grew weaker, her faith seemed to grow bolder. And sick call was "such and important place, Corrie! Some of these people are at the threshold of heaven!

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.