Longing Quotes

1123 Longing quotes by 783 unique authors

Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a God whose love… — Mike Yaconelli
Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive. — Erwin McManus
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful… — Sam Storms
When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm… — John Climacus
Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations.… — Alexander Rodchenko
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the… — Michel Onfray
Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly — Elmer Diktonius
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one… — Esther Perel
I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find:… — Alice Steinbach
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. — Albert Einstein
The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they… — Philip Yancey
We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A lot of friendship is about practice, thatâ€™s something Iâ€™ve learned as Iâ€™ve gotten older. Itâ€™s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings,… — Ann Brashares
Even in this world where youâ€™re getting everything you need and having this nice life, thereâ€™s still loneliness and longing and disconnection. — Spike Jonze
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. — Anna Sui
It is human longing that makes us holy. — John O'Donohue
They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy,… — Gore Vidal
Guru Arjun tells us that the truth we seek is within ourselves, and I agree. The answers to many of our greatest desires, needs, and… — Dharma Singh Khalsa

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