Quotes about Yearning

Our hearts are restless, until they rest in You.

So, what's really going on here? I believe God made us to crave.

Think about the definition of the word craving. How would you define it? Dictionary.com defines craving as something you long for, want greatly, desire eagerly, and beg for.2 Now consider this expression of craving: "How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! My soul yearns, event faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God" (Psalm 84:1 — 2).

Yes, we were made to crave — long for, want greatly, desire eagerly, and beg for—God. Only God. But Satan wants to do everything possible to replace our craving for God with something else.

We were made to crave— long for, want greatly, desire eagerly, and beg for— God. Only God.

God made us to crave so we'd always desire more of Him.

God seems far away and French fries are right around the corner at the drive-thru.

How tragic that when we chase something in this world, we're actually running away from the stable trust and secure love our souls long for the most.

God never intended for us to want anything more than we want Him.

Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

And so a man's heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places.