Quotes about Yearning
There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound
— Paul David Tripp
Because we live for our happiness, happiness always eludes us—???because every fulfilled desire is followed by yet another desire.
— Paul David Tripp
Life is all about what we look to to fill us.
— Paul David Tripp
there is a deeper hunger within you than the physical hunger with which you are so familiar.
— Paul David Tripp
If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
— Paulo Coelho
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
— Peter Kreeft
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
— Genesis 27:38
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
— Genesis 30:1
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
— Genesis 31:30
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
— Numbers 11:4
Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
— 1 Samuel 1:3
And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
— 2 Samuel 13:39