Thirst Quotes - Page 19

• When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

  Randy Alcorn

  Joy, Unattractive, Sin

  Randy Alcorn (2015). “Happiness”, p.71, NavPress

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• Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Believe, Men

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

  Sai Baba

  Hunger And Thirst, Slave, Treats

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• The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Tea, May, Outsiders

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

  John Updike

  Religion, Church, Weekdays

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• The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Real, Ideas, Personality

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• My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Eye, Age, Ears

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• Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Sleep, Eye, Body

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• To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  World, Hunger And Thirst, Righteousness

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• We can't anticipate and provide for life's trials, but the Lord can and does. The Lord wants us to thirst not after a quick fix to our problems but after the life-altering refreshment of His provision.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Doe, Trials, Want

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• As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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• Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

  Antonio Damasio

  Pain, Bird, Feelings

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• We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Soul, Taste

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• In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Land, People, Today

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• In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Justice, Water

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.303

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• Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.46, Routledge

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• When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

  Salli Richardson

  Emotion, Mixed Emotions, Loved Ones

  "Salli Richardson-Whitfield: The “I Will Follow” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. August 18, 2001.

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• He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, People, Appreciate

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Hands, Feet

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Knowing

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• Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

  Pope Francis

  People, Hunger And Thirst, Persons

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• Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

  Margaret Atwood

  Loneliness, Islands, Water

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• Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Water, Inquiry

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• But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren't met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death - neurosis and psychosis.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Men, Emotional, Frustration

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself

  Willi Unsoeld

  Faces, Cold, Hunger

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