Hunger And Thirst Quotes

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

The God of Love lives in a state of need.

You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.