Quotes about Yearning

No three words have greater force than "I want you, " greater strength than "I need you, " greater might than "I miss you, " and greater power than "I love you.

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

What you fear is an indication of what you seek.

I need my heart to be moved by you.

Concupierunt concupiscentiam in deserto. . . . Numquid poterit parare mensam populo suo?

I need criticism the way a man dying of thirst needs water.

concupiscence

Listening to all words--the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture--can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.