Quotes about Yearning

Funny thing is, there's only so much you can fill up with earthly things. There's an empty place and a void inside that only God can fill and some folks never figure that out.

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love

When god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

This time the petition rose from deep inside her heart. Asking for the fire of the Holy Spirit to be kindled anew. And for her to reach toward God with that hunger, that yearning, that desire to know and serve and love in His name. All around her shouts of wonder and joy rang out as others received the touch they had requested in their bodies and souls.

If only my heart were stone.

If only my heart were stone.