Thirst Quotes - Page 22

• Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

  C. S. Lewis

  Play, Water, Inquiry

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• The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Blessing, Motive, Curse

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• When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Philosophy, College, Degrees

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• After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

  Robert Hass

  Distance, Silly, Hands

  Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”

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• Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.

  Octavio Paz

  Wall, Garden, Clouds

  Octavio Paz (1979). “A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems”, p.35, New Directions Publishing

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• It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

  Khalil Gibran

  Needs, Hunger And Thirst, Next

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• We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

  Carl Sagan

  Real, Quality, Stories

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

  William Watson

  Curiosity, Discontent, Knows

  William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”

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• As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is a Revelator: he is a Sanctifier; he reveals truth, and he cleanses human souls. He is the Spirit of Truth, and his baptism is one of fire; he burns dross and evil out of repentant souls as though by fire. The gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest of all the gifts of God, as pertaining to this life; and those who enjoy that gift here and now, will inherit eternal life hereafter, which is the greatest of all the gifts of God in eternity.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Men, Fire, Evil

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• You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Hunger And Thirst, Odor

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• I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell

  Ellen Schreiber

  Eternity, Quench, Maxwell

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• If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Grief, Sadness, Mean

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• I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lonely, Voice, Perfect

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• Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

  Rumi

  Heart, Water, Lifts

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• Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways. What we are looking for lies within us, and if we gave out time and energy to an interior search, we would come across it much faster, since that is the only place where it is to be found.

  Ayya Khema

  Lying, Reflection, Energy

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• If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice.

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  Islamic, Home, Afterlife

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• ... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Dream, Persistence

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• At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

  William Osler

  Attitude, Science, Simple

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Temptation, Deception, Path

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• Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

  Ali Smith

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Angel, Sweat

  Anne Rice (2016). “The Young Messiah (Movie tie-in) (originally published as Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt): A Novel”, p.255, Ballantine Books

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• Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Believe, Fountain, No Hope

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Evil, Hunger And Thirst

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

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• Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

  Van Morrison

  Spiritual, Firsts, Hunger

  Song: Satisfied, Album: Common One

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• If you thirst you may drink.

  C. S. Lewis

  May, Drink, Ifs

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