--- title: "22 Longing God Quotes by 20 authors" description: "Browse 22 Longing God quotes by 20 authors. Discover the best Longing God sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/susan-e-isaacs-47320_human-love_perhaps-our-loneliness-can-never-be-fill_2453790.jpg" --- > [“Perhaps our loneliness can never be filled with even the best of human love. Maybe the longing for human love is just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-e-isaacs/perhaps-our-loneliness-can-never-be-filled-with-even-the-best-of/) [Susan E. Isaacs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-e-isaacs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/susan-e-isaacs-47320_human-love_perhaps-our-loneliness-can-never-be-fill_2453790.jpg) > [Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-sri-ravi-shankar/longing-gives-you-the-power-to-bless-bless-the-entire-creation-for/) [Sri Sri Ravi Shankar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-sri-ravi-shankar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94b/sri-sri-ravi-shankar-942_bless_longing-gives-you-the-power-to-bless-ble_1081026.png) > [“Lament is missional because it keeps the world before God, and it draws God into the world – with the longing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-j-h-wright-2/lament-is-missional-because-it-keeps-the-world-before-god-and-it/) [Christopher J.H. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-j-h-wright-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/907/christopher-j-h-wright-2-38478_lament_lament-is-missional-because-it-keeps-the_602672.jpg) > [“One who has an intense longing for God, attains self-knowledge in the Divine Consciousness (God).”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shiva-negi/one-who-has-an-intense-longing-for-god-attains-self-knowledge-in-the/) [Shiva Negi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shiva-negi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9be/shiva-negi-9255_divine-consciousness_one-who-has-an-intense-longing-for-god-a_474942.jpg) > [Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/down-inside-we-have-a-longing-for-god-what-pascal-called-the-vacuum/) [Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7d/billy-graham-234_behinds_down-inside-we-have-a-longing-for-god-wh_2993232.png) > [“He who has an intense longing for God-realization, attains immortality in the knowledge of the Self (Soul).”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shiva-negi/he-who-has-an-intense-longing-for-god-realization-attains-immortality/) [Shiva Negi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shiva-negi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f6/shiva-negi-9255_death_he-who-has-an-intense-longing-for-god-re_788919.jpg) > [“One who has an intense longing for God-realization, attains Self-knowledge in the Divine Consciousness of God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shiva-negi/one-who-has-an-intense-longing-for-god-realization-attains-self/) [Shiva Negi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shiva-negi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fee/shiva-negi-9255_be-yourself_one-who-has-an-intense-longing-for-god-r_1390213.jpg) > [“Prayer is allowing ourselves to be thirsty; it is a longing for something we just cannot seem to find. The Sufis say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-lesser/prayer-is-allowing-ourselves-to-be-thirsty-it-is-a-longing-for/) [Elizabeth Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-lesser/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/elizabeth-lesser-1683_longing-for-god_prayer-is-allowing-ourselves-to-be-thirs_2154138.png) > [The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meister-eckhart/the-soul-must-long-for-god-in-order-to-be-set-aflame-by-god-s-love/) [Meister Eckhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meister-eckhart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/meister-eckhart-1044_feels_the-soul-must-long-for-god-in-order-to-b_1887809.jpg) > [“It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arianna-huffington/it-s-a-longing-an-aching-to-complete-ourselves-to-unite-with-that/) [Arianna Huffington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arianna-huffington/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/arianna-huffington-1005_longing_it-s-a-longing-an-aching-to-complete-our_526091.png) > [Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-chinmoy/spirituality-is-man-s-conscious-longing-for-god-spirituality-tells-us/) [Sri Chinmoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-chinmoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/sri-chinmoy-517_conscious_spirituality-is-man-s-conscious-longing_423220.png) > [“I am called to live in perfect relation to God so that my life produces a longing after God in other lives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/i-am-called-to-live-in-perfect-relation-to-god-so-that-my-life/) [Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c3/oswald-chambers-205_god_i-am-called-to-live-in-perfect-relation_3199894.png) > [What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-vernon-mcgee/what-is-your-ambition-in-life-today-is-it-to-get-rich-is-it-to-make-a/) [J. Vernon McGee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-vernon-mcgee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d51/j-vernon-mcgee-9910_ambition_what-is-your-ambition-in-life-today-is-i_575562.png) > [“The human longing for God or the transcendent runs very deep—perhaps far too deep to be trusted, but also too deep to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/the-human-longing-for-god-or-the-transcendent-runs-very-deep-perhaps/) [David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec9/david-bentley-hart-4691_deep_the-human-longing-for-god-or-the-transce_764940.png) > [Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paramahansa-yogananda/only-the-wise-know-just-where-predestination-ends-and-free-will/) [Paramahansa Yogananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paramahansa-yogananda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e4/paramahansa-yogananda-556_best_only-the-wise-know-just-where-predestina_107847.jpg) > [There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-kolodiejchuk/there-is-so-much-deep-contradiction-in-my-soul-such-deep-longing-for/) [Brian Kolodiejchuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-kolodiejchuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/brian-kolodiejchuk-47338_attraction_there-is-so-much-deep-contradiction-in-m_450878.png) > [“So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/so-throw-off-all-desires-remove-all-the-dust-from-your-eyes-be-at/) [Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/osho-519_bliss_so-throw-off-all-desires-remove-all-the_1980654.jpg) > [“I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-want-deliberately-to-encourage-this-mighty-longing-after-god-the/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34b/anonymous-1_desire_i-want-deliberately-to-encourage-this-mi_1396127.jpg) > [When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/when-a-man-s-intellect-is-constantly-with-god-his-desire-grows-beyond/) [Maximus the Confessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximus-the-confessor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/maximus-the-confessor-7435_aspect_when-a-man-s-intellect-is-constantly-wit_2034076.jpg) > [There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-van-gogh/there-may-be-a-time-in-life-when-one-is-tired-of-everything-and-feels/) [Vincent Van Gogh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-van-gogh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e64/vincent-van-gogh-486_be-patient_there-may-be-a-time-in-life-when-one-is_1504542.jpg) > [“Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick. Ease he did not seek, honour he did not covet, but the enjoyment of communion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/debarred-from-public-worship-david-was-heartsick-ease-he-did-not-seek/) [Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/charles-spurgeon-82_christianity_debarred-from-public-worship-david-was-h_1769103.png) > [“Each in His Own Tongue A fire mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-herbert-carruth/each-in-his-own-tongue-a-fire-mist-and-a-planet-a-crystal-and-a-cell/) [William Herbert Carruth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-herbert-carruth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/332/william-herbert-carruth-91300_beauty_each-in-his-own-tongue-a-fire-mist-and-a_706505.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/longing-god/#itemlist", "name": "Longing God Quotes", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Perhaps our loneliness can never be filled with even the best of human love. 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We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Arianna Huffington" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arianna-huffington/it-s-a-longing-an-aching-to-complete-ourselves-to-unite-with-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/arianna-huffington-1005_longing_it-s-a-longing-an-aching-to-complete-our_526091.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/arianna-huffington-1005_longing_it-s-a-longing-an-aching-to-complete-our_526091.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/arianna-huffington-1005_longing_it-s-a-longing-an-aching-to-complete-our_526091.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. 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Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sri Chinmoy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-chinmoy/spirituality-is-man-s-conscious-longing-for-god-spirituality-tells-us/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/sri-chinmoy-517_conscious_spirituality-is-man-s-conscious-longing_423220.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/sri-chinmoy-517_conscious_spirituality-is-man-s-conscious-longing_423220.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/sri-chinmoy-517_conscious_spirituality-is-man-s-conscious-longing_423220.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. 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It lies at the heart of all human culture.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Bentley Hart" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/the-human-longing-for-god-or-the-transcendent-runs-very-deep-perhaps/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec9/david-bentley-hart-4691_deep_the-human-longing-for-god-or-the-transce_764940.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec9/david-bentley-hart-4691_deep_the-human-longing-for-god-or-the-transce_764940.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec9/david-bentley-hart-4691_deep_the-human-longing-for-god-or-the-transce_764940.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The human longing for God or the transcendent runs very deep—perhaps far too deep to be trusted, but also…” — David Bentley Hart", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paramahansa Yogananda" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paramahansa-yogananda/only-the-wise-know-just-where-predestination-ends-and-free-will/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e4/paramahansa-yogananda-556_best_only-the-wise-know-just-where-predestina_107847.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e4/paramahansa-yogananda-556_best_only-the-wise-know-just-where-predestina_107847.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e4/paramahansa-yogananda-556_best_only-the-wise-know-just-where-predestina_107847.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. 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Teresa", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brian Kolodiejchuk" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-kolodiejchuk/there-is-so-much-deep-contradiction-in-my-soul-such-deep-longing-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/brian-kolodiejchuk-47338_attraction_there-is-so-much-deep-contradiction-in-m_450878.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/brian-kolodiejchuk-47338_attraction_there-is-so-much-deep-contradiction-in-m_450878.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/brian-kolodiejchuk-47338_attraction_there-is-so-much-deep-contradiction-in-m_450878.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. 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You have entered the whole, you have recognized who you are.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Osho" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/so-throw-off-all-desires-remove-all-the-dust-from-your-eyes-be-at/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/osho-519_bliss_so-throw-off-all-desires-remove-all-the_1980654.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/osho-519_bliss_so-throw-off-all-desires-remove-all-the_1980654.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/osho-519_bliss_so-throw-off-all-desires-remove-all-the_1980654.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something…” — Osho", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. 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For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maximus the Confessor" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximus-the-confessor/when-a-man-s-intellect-is-constantly-with-god-his-desire-grows-beyond/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/maximus-the-confessor-7435_aspect_when-a-man-s-intellect-is-constantly-wit_2034076.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/maximus-the-confessor-7435_aspect_when-a-man-s-intellect-is-constantly-wit_2034076.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/maximus-the-confessor-7435_aspect_when-a-man-s-intellect-is-constantly-wit_2034076.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing…” — Maximus the Confessor", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 20, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? 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Ease he did not seek, honour he did not covet, but the enjoyment of communion with God was an urgent need of his soul; he viewed it not merely as the sweetest of all luxuries, but as an absolute necessity, like water to a stag. Like the parched traveler in the wilderness, whose skin bottle is empty, and who finds the wells dry, he must drink or die – he must have his God or faint. His soul, his very self, his deepest life, was insatiable for a sense of the divine presence. . . . Give him his God and he is as content as the poor deer which at length slakes its thirst and is perfectly happy; but deny him his Lord, and his heart heaves, his bosom palpitates, his whole frame is convulsed, like one who gasps for breath, or pants with long running. Dear friend, dost thou know what this is, by personally having felt the same? It is a sweet bitterness. The next best thing to living in the light of the Lord’s love is to be unhappy till we have it, and to pant hourly after it – hourly, did I say? Thirst is a perpetual appetite, and not to be forgotten, and even thus continually is the heart’s longing after God. When it is as natural for us to long for God as for an animal to thirst, it is well with our souls, however painful our feelings”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Spurgeon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/debarred-from-public-worship-david-was-heartsick-ease-he-did-not-seek/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/charles-spurgeon-82_christianity_debarred-from-public-worship-david-was-h_1769103.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/charles-spurgeon-82_christianity_debarred-from-public-worship-david-was-h_1769103.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/charles-spurgeon-82_christianity_debarred-from-public-worship-david-was-h_1769103.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick. 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