“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.” IfsIdeasWholeChristianSpiritualSpiritPrayerCompassionPrayingHolyWeaknessLongingIntellectFlightHoly SpiritOrthodoxOrthodox ChristianThoughts And Ideas Author:Evagrius Ponticus
“The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.” MadeBodyWaterTearsHolyBlessingLongingHoliness Author:Deborah Keenan
“Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.” MenWorldNeedsShowsPainJoySufferingFeltSituationForeverGreaterHolyMen And WomenAngelOvercomingLongingTreasureOften IsPresent Situation Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.” WayMeanDreamTodaySchoolMotherFightingLanguageCommonMillionsStruggleHolyEternalLongingMiseryStriveTongueCirclesPreservesConceptionHandfulNationalityFatherlandMother TongueGerman Language Author:Adolf Hitler
“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.” YearsBeautifulSongWaitingPrayerPrayingHolyPromiseSeasonsLongingLovelyChristmasCelebrateCelebrationAdventMerry ChristmasChristmas WishesMerry Christmas WishesChristmas Greetings Author:Karl Rahner
“For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.” LongMadeTogetherPerfectExistenceOur LivesSourceHolyPromisePerfectionMarkLongingHungerSeedsSettlingParadiseSicknessFulfilledCommunionOur LoveFragmentsHealedDissatisfactionLove And Friendship Author:Richard John Neuhaus
“O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.” EyeTurnsMorningIssuesClearFeetLandWindListeningHolyTasteKissingApproachSpringAngelWindowSickBreathsLongingWesternEveningTheeHillsValleysLocksOur LovePearlsEasternMournGarmentsChoirHailIsleLove Sick Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)