Spiritual Longing Quotes

#1. When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

Elizabeth Lesser

#2. Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

John Eldredge

#3. The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of yoga is a longing. Only when your longing is cranked up to peak intensity, knowing becomes a possibility.

Jaggi Vasudev

#4. You are not a human being living your life, but you are a spiritual being longing for life.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Nobody can change their past, but anyone can begin today, to create a brand new past for tomorrow.

Julieanne O'Connor

#6. The innate longing within every soul is to awaken from the spirit's slumber and then to journey home.

Patsie Smith

#7. Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

Huston Smith

#8. Walk a bit further.
There is a different land not far away.
The people in it have the magic to break the icy fingers of the great death.
I heard that you don't even have to pay.
However, you have to find their door.
It is only found by those who pay the other price.

Donna Goddard

#9. We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

Mary McDonnell

#10. I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

David Chang

#11. The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.

Evagrius Ponticus

#12. I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.

Stormie O'martian

#13. That deep longing that you keep dismissing as impractical, may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do.

Renae A. Sauter

#14. The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

Jaggi Vasudev

#15. When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

Jaggi Vasudev

#16. Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#17. Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

Ravi Zacharias

#18. It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

Jack White

#19. As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.

Dada Bhagwan

#20. If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn't know what happened to people once they were unfixable. I only hoped I never had to find out.

Cole Gibsen

#21. Belief in these solitary men springs from a longing for a fraternity without name, for a deeper spiritual relationship than is possible between human beings.

Ernst Junger

#22. Those who seek eternity find a mind of infinity

Ana Claudia Antunes

#23. A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail. I had hoped for uprightness, integrity, and potentially a relationship. Longing overshadowed the voice of conscience.

Debra Moffitt

#24. I've got corporate executives, my bosses ... this is true ... who will text message me ... and say, 'Hey a, heard you had chemotherapy today, want me to stop by and pick you up something to eat and bring it to you?' Whose boss does that? My bosses do that.

Stuart Scott

#25. Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there - to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.

John Welwood

#26. In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

Guy Finley

#27. The world was run by its bankers. The world was run by its investor class. The world was run by its manufacturers. The history of human destiny was money, the men who controlled it, and nothing more. Money, a measure of humiliation, was the only thing that mattered.

Jarett Kobek

#28. Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#29. Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book.

Dinty W. Moore

#30. The gilded spiral
Of longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven.

Scott Hastie