Quotes about Yearning
Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.
- Matt Chandler
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
- Samuel Beckett
You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.
- Stormie Omartian
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
- Graham Greene
Hell is the inability to love.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
- Samuel Beckett
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
- Philip Yancey
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
- Khalil Gibran
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
- St. Augustine
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
- St. Augustine
All love craves unity.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
- Oscar Wilde