Longing Quotes - Page 2

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.

But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

There is no house like the house of belonging.