Quotes about Yearning

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

You made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace till they rest in you.

Anxiety seems to be an intense desire for something, accompanied by a fear of the consequences of not receiving it.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.5

All over the world men and women are looking wistfully to heaven.

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? Since passion may not fire thee Shall Nature cease to bow? Thy mind is ever moving In regions dark to thee; Recall its useless roving -- Come back and dwell with me.

We wanted More. We wanted a deeper sense of purpose. We wanted a stronger sense of God's presence.