"As the deer pants for the streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God."
"God hasn't called us to ignore the longings in our hearts; instead, he wants us to find our ultimate joy in him."
"I'm looking for a city whose builder and maker is God."
"God gave such a beautiful gift to a young man that longed for it for years and years and years."
"I want to see him in his fullness, don't you?"
"Jesus is after just one thing, he longs for you to give him your heart and enter into a relationship with him."
"After our toil here, receive us into your presence."
"If we constantly find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
"If you find in yourself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that you were made for another world."
"Everything in you would cry out for a move of God. Everything in you say, 'Lord, do it in our day.'"
"I can't wait to receive the Eucharist again."
"If you've felt that gnawing inside of you that we all feel from time to time..."
"We are human beings created to thrive in this world we have a spiritual essence that longs for justice for truth for righteousness for love..."
"Some of you are old souls longing for something beyond this world."
"How do you get back to the purifying hope of longing for Christ's return?"
"We long for love and for life-giving Union because this is our origin and our destiny."
"In heaven, we will be happy... the fulfillment of all our desires."
"If you find in yourself a desire for something that nothing in this world can satisfy, it probably means you were made for another world."
"Come quickly Lord Jesus, your redemption draweth nigh."
"Oh God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you, my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you as in a dry and weary land where there is no water."
"People have a craving to get back to basics, that there's something in the human spirit that is dying to get back to what what is just a basic orientation of the Gospel."
"As the deer pants for the water, so my soul pants after you, God."
"We all have this longing in us that recognizes this moment means something."
"I'm looking for a miracle in my life. I'm looking for someone to change my life. That is the Christian answer."
"All of creation was destined for frustration so that we would let go of this world and long for eternity in the infinite."
"God, I just want more of You, more of You, more of You."
"I try and I try and I try try try and I can't get no. Well that's the way the human heart is structured because it's ordered finally to God and therefore none of the goods of the world can possibly satisfy us."
"There is nothing on Earth that I desire besides you."
"If prophetic ministry is a vessel through which God's love flows, then I want all of it that He will give."
"You've made me thirsty for the Water of Life."
"When I get to heaven, it's not streets of gold or gates of pearl; I want to see Jesus, the one who died for me."
"I want the life that is not temporal. I want the life that is not earthly. I want the life that is characteristic of God."
"Everyone is listening to us even now, God by his grace is causing their heart to say, 'I want this love, I want this love, I want this love.'"
"We have an implicit thirst for grace."
"I don't want to go to heaven to see golden streets."
"I want to go to heaven to see Jesus."
"Worship isn't just an activity, it's hosting God in fresh ways. We need more of God's glory in our midst."
"Friend, faith looks upward; the King, the Lord Jesus Christ, is coming."
"You're amazing. You say to the world, 'Make up with me. Come to me. Confess you're wrong to me. Change the way you think. Redeem me, Lord. Make me a follower of Jesus Christ, a believer in the Bible, a child of God. Reconcile me to your loving heart."
"It's like missing God so much with all your heart, mind, and soul, missing Him."
"You are searching and longing for a relationship with God through Christ. Nothing else will satisfy."
"Oh, to be with Him! I asked for no other bliss and cannot imagine anything more heavenly."
"The ability to long after the Union with the Divine was granted to you by the divine."
"God creates this sense of emptiness within us in order to help us grasp that only God can satisfy our deepest longings."
"Everywhere I look there is darkness around me, oh Lord, how long before the morning?"
"My soul was longing for Jesus, I wanted Him to come and rescue me."
"I heard on the outside of this building the voices of old people... saying 'Lord please don't forget us, don't forget our babies, Lord we want revival too, please don't forget us'."
"I can't feel at home in this world anymore."
"The pain of longing takes you back to God, takes you home."
"...we still 'groan inwardly' because we have not yet received 'the redemption of our bodies.'"
"How ardently I longed, O my God, how ardently I long to fly to You away from earthly things!"
"There's no place I'd rather be than here in heaven."
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
"Your glory, God, is what our hearts long for."
"Many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."
"It is what the soul of the redeemed believer longs for."
"All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home."
"As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for you, O God."
"A longing of the soul that is of good tendency is a good demon."
"All the longing that was in my heart for the beloved, for God, for truth, for mother, for union, for everything, just came to the surface like a tsunami."
"...it made me realize that longing that I had for God and how much I needed Him."
"Even the unhappiness of weeping for God is greater than the greatest happiness that the world can provide."
"We long for that glory, we remember the glory of God, and we long for it."
"My soul is hungry for you, my soul is thirsty."
"Just as the deer pants for the waters, so my soul for you, O God."
"My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?"
"I desire nothing on this earth but you, and when I get to heaven, I desire no one but you."
"Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things, for righteousness, compassion, purity, love."
"There's this honest thing in your heart where you want nothing more but Jesus."
"My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water."
"Let my heart burn with longing for You, my God, and please give me a deep contrition for my sins! Amen."
"I stretched out my hands to you; my soul longs for you as a parched land longs for water."
"He gives grace; he is the fulfillment of everything your heart has been longing for."
"God promises that He will fill those who long for the Holy Spirit with the Holy Spirit's presence and power."
"God above all else wants us to love him, He wants to experience our love for Him, and He wants to love us back."
"How ardent was I then, my God, how ardent to fly from earthly things to thee!"
"He alone is the peace, the joy, the hope that our soul is longing for."
"The irresistible longing for more of God is a clear indication that God is restoring you."
"How our soul longs for you, thirsts for you."
"Thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is."
"The Bible is open to Psalm 63, titled 'The Thirsting Soul Satisfied in God'."
"I discovered that this generation is longing for the real God, they are longing to taste His presence."
"Legislation is helpless against the wild prayer of longing."
"My soul, my life, my very self thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water."