Inner Longing Quotes

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream

Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

To have a firm foundation as a child of God is something that so many people are longing for and wanting because they're searching for something more. There's got to be more out there. What is it? Well, I can tell you what it is. It's a relationship with the God of this universe, who loves you so much. That's what is it. That's what you're searching for. That's what you're longing for, and that's what you need.

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

Guys all want something beyond what they're being given - in every facet of life.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.