Quotes about Yearning

I began to take for granted that I was somewhere, and somewhere that I knew, but I never quite felt that I was somewhere I wanted to be.

curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

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A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.

People lead lives of quiet desperation.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

When he spoke, he illuminated a truth I had always yearned for and yet always run from. I am known as an authority on the holy texts, and yet when he spoke, I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit's work to discourage us.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.