Longings Quotes

102 Longings quotes by 93 unique authors

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus
Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and… — Saint Francis de Sales
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
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
A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings,… — Ann Brashares
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
Never cut loose from your longings. — Amos Oz
My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive… — Elisabeth Elliot
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God — Elyse Fitzpatrick
The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power. — S. D Gordon
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or… — Jacques Maritain
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it… — Michael Frayn
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is… — Josiah Royce
Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the… — Erwin McManus
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. — Robert Breault
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of… — Seneca the Younger
What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us. — John Steinbeck
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made,… — John Ortberg
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to meet him in… — Joseph Stowell
Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment. — Mary Anne Radmacher
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly… — Nicole Krauss
People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with… — Peter York
A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific. — Eric Hoffer

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