Quotes about Yearning

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.

The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.

God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then I want to go where they do.

His voice might be stern, but in the sternness there was still the accent of yearning love; his eyes might flash fire, but the flame was the flame of love.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.