Top 1200 Longing For God Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

How can one live without hope and longing?

God is real. God is here now. God is this moment revealed. For the most part, we are lost in the past and future world of the mind. To experience the living Presence of God in all things present, we will have come to where God is. We will have to become fully present. Otherwise we have no choice but to believe in God or disbelieve in God and neither is true, for the truth is beyond belief!

Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God to know that stealing is bad. All of God's children and their different faiths help to realize the immensity of God. No faith contains the whole truth about God. And certainly Christians don't have a corner on God. All of us belong to God.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is bound to create a very great fire in you. You will be on fire because you have chosen as your love object something impossible. You will have to weep and cry, and you will have to pray, and you will have to fast, and your mind has to continuously repeat and remember the beloved.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

God is constantly creating anew. And God also, invites us to be re-created and join the work of God as co-(re)creators. . . . Imagine the Kingdom of God as the creative process of God reengaging in all that we know and experience. . . . When we employ creativity to make this world better, we participate with God in the recreation of the world.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

And now the question: what do we do with the longing for what can destroy us?

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.

Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the patience of faith so that we may receive the Holy Gift. Even though we only wait, poor and yearning in the darkness, in fervent longing for the proclamation, we are ready, and may help bring about the fullness of time.

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.

All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living

Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever they look for him. One hears it said that 'God is the ultimate' or 'God is our better nature' or 'God is the universe.' Of course, like any other word, the word 'God' can be given any meaning we like. If you want to say that 'God is energy,' then you can find God in a lump of coal.