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• I came, then, to serve my Church first of all, and the whole world, that is, every person I find along my way. I serve and I will give of myself unto death so that there will be no distance between speaking and doing, so that the people will never again say, 'there is a chasm between us and the leaders' and word spread that the Church is far from her people. I know very well that our people are good and that they want from us today to go to them, to seek them out wherever they are, to search out the lost and return them joyfully to the fold. They hunger and thirst for the Word of God.

  Metropolitan Ephraim Kyriakos

  Spiritual, Distance, People

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• There is no other place where the heart should be so free as before the mercy seat. There, you can talk out your very soul, for that is the best prayer that you can present. Do not ask for what some tell you that you should ask for, but for that which you feel the need of, that which the Holy Spirit has made you to hunger and to thirst for, you ask for that.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Heart, Soul

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• Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Twilight, Thinking, Soul

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• The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself.

  Dave Hunt

  Soul, Christ, Revelations

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• It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  "Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions".

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• Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

  Horace

  Greed, Care, Wealth

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Intelligent, Water, Use

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• You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.

  Tana French

  Life, Rip, Fall

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• The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

  Plato

  Love, Needs, Hunger And Thirst

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• Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Men, Joy

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 15, 2017

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• So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

  John Hanning Speke

  Dark, Pigs, Savages

  John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• "The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Self, People

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• It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Atheist, Believe, Atheism

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part IV, Chapter 7, p. 626, 1869.

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• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Order, Humanity

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Don't seek the water; get thirst.

  Rumi

  Water

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• God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.

  James F. Cooper

  Spring, Men, White

  "The Pathfinder". Book by James F. Cooper, 1840.

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• The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fear, Wine, Soul

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

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• Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.

  Gunvor Hofmo

  Stars, Moving, Eye

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• We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it.

  Rumi

  Christian, Mother, Buddhist

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• There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.

  Kurt Hahn

  Passion, Adventure, Journey

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• This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.

  Prem Rawat

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Address to faculty, students and guests at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, August 2004.

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• For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Years, Names, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe, Burton Ralph Pollin, Jeffrey A. Savoye (2008). “The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe: 1847-1849”

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• The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Justice, Imagination, Honor

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• I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Kind, Sometimes, Starting Anew

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.373, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach that spring, do not go near it. You will find another spring that pours from the lake of Memory, cool water gushes out of it. There are guards in front of it. Address these words to them: I am daughter of the earth and the star-covered Sky, and I descend from the Sky; and that you know; I burn and die of thirst; let me drink quickly of the cool water that gushes from the lake of Memory. And they will allow you to drink from the sacred spring.

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Daughter, Stars, Memories

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