Quotes about Yearning
When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.
- Max Lucado
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
- AW Tozer
... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
- Julian of Norwich
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
- Hannah More
Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
- Brennan Manning
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
- Robert Frost
Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
- AW Tozer
God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.
- Beth Moore
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
- Pope John Paul II
Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?
- AW Tozer
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind".
- Billy Graham