“I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to meet him in the depths of my soul, away from the stress and press of everything on top. A relationship with Christ is the key to fulfilling our deepest longings. All of life is about filling the void that sin and separation from him have created within. Filling the emptiness with piles of things, earthly friendships, satisfying experiences, and sensual encounters ultimately proves to achieve less than what we had hoped for. Christ is the only one who fits.” WantSoulLife IsDesireChristSinWalksChristianityAchieveKeysFitProveStressDown AndPressesLongingDepthDeeperSeparationMy SoulSensualEncountersEmptinessSatisfyingVoidFulfillingSlow DownFilling Author:Joseph Stowell
“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.” MenYearsSelfLastsDesireIndividualReturnHundredDown AndCatholicOneselfExtremesReactionsBrokeEmptinessCollectivesNeglectAffirmationParticipationEmbodimentRoman CatholicSelf Affirmation Author:Paul Tillich
“Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the goods of the world, even though these goods are not false or intrinsically unsatisfactory.... Desire shatters the economy of things; it disputes the tyranny of objects. IT longs for the great emptiness, which is beauty and love without limitation.” WorldDesireEconomyObjectsAnd LoveTyrannyLimitationEmptinessGoodsUniformsDisputesInsatiableBlandBeauty And Love Book:The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth Source: The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth
“Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.” ProblemDesireEvilPureEternalInvestingDrivenEndlessFallenEmptinessCompelledInsatiable Author:Denis de Rougemont