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Quotes about Yearning

All love craves unity.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
— Oscar Wilde
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
— Vernon Howard
I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit, or walk, Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk: Let him eat, drink, ask Questions, or dispute, Still he must speak of Nævia, or be mute. He writ to his Father, ending with this Line, I am, my Lovely Nævia, ever thine.
— Joseph Addison
I know the intimate gestures he uses with women, but I still want to know the gestures he uses with God.
— Etty Hillesum
I know the intimate gestures he uses with women, but I still want to know the gestures he uses with God.
— Etty Hillesum
I know the intimate gestures he uses with women, but I still want to know the gestures he uses with God.
— Etty Hillesum
I know the intimate gestures he uses with women, but I still want to know the gestures he uses with God.
— Etty Hillesum
I'm bankrupt without love.
— Eugene Peterson
But having gotten what we had always wanted, we find we have not gotten what we wanted at all. We are less fulfilled than ever.
— Eugene Peterson
But you never got hungry for me. You continued to ignore me." GOD'S Decree.
— Eugene Peterson