Quotes about Yearning

What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can have what we wanted we want something else. It's human nature in a single luminous story. Our sin. Our fall. Our problem.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else. C. S. Lewis

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." —C. S. Lewis

Atheism is an empty cup crying out to be filled, while religion is an empty cup appearing to be filled.

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We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.

Our souls yearn for a wonder that reaches beyond the dimensions of our finite minds, and if we don't allow a wonder toward God, we'll search for it elsewhere, in false gods. . . .The older you get, the more it takes to fill your heart with wonder. . .and only God is big enough to do that.

Augustine said, "You [Lord God] have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Along with anger, God makes a second response to our guilt. Anger at the throne is compounded by God's utter anguish at having hoped and been betrayed, at having yearned and failed. The