Quotes about Yearning
The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
- Francine Rivers
I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul with heaven dipped ink
- Steven James
What would it be like to hold a different girl?
- Rainbow Rowell
No three words have greater force than "I want you, " greater strength than "I need you, " greater might than "I miss you, " and greater power than "I love you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
- Thomas Merton
What you fear is an indication of what you seek.
- Thomas Merton
I need my heart to be moved by you.
- Thomas Merton
Concupierunt concupiscentiam in deserto. . . . Numquid poterit parare mensam populo suo?
- Thomas Merton
I need criticism the way a man dying of thirst needs water.
- Thomas Merton
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- Thomas Merton
Listening to all words--the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture--can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.
- Kathleen Norris