Longing Quotes - Page 29

• 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 fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Spiritual, Emotional, Attachment

  "Q&A with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf". Religion News Service Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• 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 the depths of my soul, away from the stress and press of everything on top. A relationship with Christ is the key to fulfilling our deepest longings. All of life is about filling the void that sin and separation from him have created within. Filling the emptiness with piles of things, earthly friendships, satisfying experiences, and sensual encounters ultimately proves to achieve less than what we had hoped for. Christ is the only one who fits.

  Joseph Stowell

  Stress, Keys, Soul

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• The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Light

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• Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Motivational, Dream, Waiting

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• I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Stress, Thinking, People

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• When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. 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.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Drawing

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• Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that hope whereby we grasp things of the future as though they were present. Without the power of desire there is no longing, and so no love, which is the issue of longing; for the property of desire is to love something. And without the incensive power, intensifying the desire for union with what is loved, there can be no peace, for peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Spring

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• What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Color, Knowing, People

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• I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That’s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.

  Jonathan Hull

  Past, Thinking, Wish

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things,
  To have no home in the present.
  And these are wishes: gentle dialogues
  Of the poor hours with eternity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Home, Wish, Eternity

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “Poems”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Lying, Evil, Needs

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• 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 several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.

  Peter York

  Ideas, Worry, People

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• Prayers prayed in the Spirit never die until they accomplish God's intended purpose. His answer may not be what we expected, or when we expected it, but God often provides much more abundantly than we could think or ask. He interprets our intent and either answers or stores up our prayers. Sincere prayers are never lost. Energy, time, love, and longing can be endowments that will never be wasted or go unrewarded.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Thinking, Energy

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• The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?

  Chief Dan George

  Native American, Heart, Grandchildren

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• The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Heart, Pride, Fire

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• You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. We're drawn by a force we don't understand, through worlds, through experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Home, Sky, Suffering

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• Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Fasting, Incessant

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.28, A&C Black

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• 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

  Men, Soul, Flow

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Overcoming, Want

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• Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Singing, Deep Emotions

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.308

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• Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Fleeting, Gestures

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• An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reason, Hysterical, Contradiction

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• A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

  Walter Pater

  Weather, Light, Doors

  Walter Pater (2010). “The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry”, p.166, The Floating Press

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• 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? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Regret, Tired, Thinking

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