"Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind."
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"Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing."
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"Only longing can fill with more of itself."
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"Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God."
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"You are all that you are longing for."
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"All language is a longing for home."
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"The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard."
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"An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations."
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"How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence."
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"We have no hope and yet we live in longing."
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"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true."
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"Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint."
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"Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you."
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"How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more."
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"Longing is all that lasts."
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"To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position."
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"longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness"
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"It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue."
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"In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for."
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"We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing."
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