Quotes about Yearning

I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.

If you could have anything you wanted and it wouldn't be bad or wrong, what would that be? So

God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.

My body faints for You in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water. Psalm 63:1

God waits, watches, and hopes that the sun will not set on our length of days without our standing on tiptoes at the extremity of life, yelling, "Is there not more than this?

After my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. I myself will see him with my own eyes...[on] a white horse whose rider is called Faithful and True….How my heart yearns within me!" JOB 19:26-27; REVELATION 19:11; JOB 19:27

When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.

Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security.

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

Yet deep in the human heart is a yearning for security—a yearning that will not go away. We know we need a solid foundation to life, a foundation that cannot be shaken. Where will it be found? Only God never changes. His love does not change, and neither do His promises. That is why we can look to Him for the security and stability we all seek.

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.