People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.
Of course you can't stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion-good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.
Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.
This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.
It makes absolutely no sense for me to turn down a fight I desperately want.
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
I am athirst for God, the living God.
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
