Because of sin our minds are darkened and our wills are distorted: we no longer see God clearly and we no
longer yearn for him with all our heart.
The fantasy is that once a healthy baby is born, the mother will no
longer yearn for the one (s) that weren't.
No longer do you have to be the third wheel at the dinner party or the lone dove at the theater show or have to skip
that long yearned for walk on the beach because you don't have someone to do it with.
I no
longer yearn for the safety of the past.
Traders have
long yearned for alternative ways to invest in the crypto boom without having to deposit their money on volatile exchanges.
Not exact matches
As
long as people have lived in close quarters, they've been complaining about the noises other people make and
yearning for quiet.
A
yearning to be loved and to love — a
longing for union.»
As
long as God's deniers are righteous; He nor us faithful ones can find faultiness upon deniability's
yearning summations...
Rather, she explores the complex of emotions that beset a woman seeking to navigate the unpredictable waters of contemporary relationships — sleeping with a married man who in turn has an unfaithful wife («Don't think of me»);
longing for a lover who slipped away without saying good bye («My lover's gone»), vaunting one's independence whilst
yearning for some permanent connection («My life»), feeling deeply uncomfortable with oneself: «I just want to feel safe in my own skin.»
* worship God, whose will is and who has always
yearned for us to...... be free and independent;... think;... be curious;... be intelligent and wise;... value knowledge over ignorance and compassion over knowledge;... be creative;... grow and mature;... live
long healthy satisfying lives;... live non-violently without vengeance;... be generous;... be hospitable;... be compassionate;... do no harm;... heal and rehabilitate and restore;... forgive and reconcile and include all and have all participate;... be good stewards of all resources;... live here and now as one family;... live in a loving intimate relationship with God;... be transformed through resurrection; and... be the kingdom of God.
Little by little, though the irresistible development of those
yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no
longer see anything, nor any
longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.
The attitude of the candidate is that of Psalm 64: O God, You are my God, for You I
long, for You my soul is
yearning... therefore I have gazed upon You in the sanctuary, to behold Your power and glory.
Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and
longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat,
yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.
The writer of the Psalm only gets to worship God in the temple a couple times a year, and he is excited to the point of
yearning, thirsting,
longing, even fainting to worship God again.
And think how it is with me, Adam: that life I have led is like a land I have trodden in blessedness since my childhood; and if I
long for a moment to follow the voice which calls me to another land that I know not, I can not but fear that my soul might hereafter
yearn for that early blessedness which I had forsaken; and where doubt enters, there is not perfect love....
It is waiting in hope for something that is not seen, yet
yearning for it with a
longing that is beyond words.
They made the
long journey because they believed and
yearned for salvation.
Deep down, do any of us really believe that shorn of our hard - won attributes, our «tribute,» we would, in our nakedness, be acceptable to or
longed for by the
yearning God?
To them, Theodor Adorno's observation in Minima Moralia that «The
long since frigid libertine represents business, while the proper and well brought up lady represents
yearning and unromantic sexuality» suggests the possibility of silent subversion.
At the same time, it is no less sensitive to the desire of human beings not to sicken and die, to be relieved of social strife and injustice, to be forever in the company of their loved ones, to have their deepest
yearnings satisfied, and to have an infinitely
long life, one that is infinitely and interestingly worth having.
I have been tortured with
longing to believe — am so, indeed, even now; and the
yearning grows stronger, the more cogent the intellectual difficulties that stand in the way.
Some humans romantically
yearn for a regression back to social anarchy, which might be likened — rather fancifully, to be sure — to the cells of a plant
longing for the mobility of single - celled organisms.
The Lord is the goal of human history, the focal point of the
longings of history and of civilisation, the centre of the human race, the joy of every heart and the answer to all its
yearnings» (45).
The
yearning for completion, for acceptance, for oneness with some «other» expressed in biblical images, Bible stories, in relational theology, and in hymns can reveal the inner connection between the experience of physical
longing for union and the search for intimacy with God.
If I tried to summarize my deepest spiritual aspiration, I would use the words of St Paul, «It is no
longer I that live, but Christ Jesus lives in me» (Galatians 2, 20), or I would echo the
yearning from the Prayer of Humble Access in the Book of Common Prayer that «I might evermore dwell in Christ and he in me».
Leave therefore your harshest social wantings alone and onwardly unprovable devotional
yearnings behind you and never take wind of one's earnest psychic
longings for the weightiness of one's theatrical
longings will smite even the most goodly intentioned influential beings.
Moses, leading his people out of bondage, found them, on the one hand,
longing for God and freedom, on the other hand,
yearning for a golden calf or the fleshpots of Egypt.
Then again he often turned his mind and the hearts of his listeners to the
yearning phrase of Jesus looking across at Jerusalem on the hill, and saying, «Oh, how I have
longed to gather thee, as a hen gathers the chicks under its wings.»
One is deeply moved, one
longs to be back in those beautiful times, a sweet
yearning conducts one to the desired goal, to see Christ wandering in the promised land.
He answers the deepest
yearnings of the prophets for justice and righteousness before God by his own life and teaching, and he makes ever present in himself the future
longings of Psalmist and Wisdom writer for human wholeness and integrity of life.
After I moved, I no
longer was able to visit this restaurant, yet I still
yearned for the warming combo of lentils, lemon, and kale.
The legend goes that some vegan awoke from a
long VCR» ed Dynasty marathon, with a
yearning for garlic and nutritional yeast... and the vegan Caesar was born.
Doubtless, for thousands of years, man lived under trees, and ate the half - cooked flesh of wild animals; and, so
long as man lives on earth, he will have an occasional
yearning to return to his originally savage condition.
I'm sure my exuberance was due to the
long winter and my
yearning for fresh tomatoes and zucchini.
Without
long term injuries to key players like Sanchez, Ozil, The Boss and others then we'll be crowned champions by May next year.I
yearn for the return of Welbeck and Lucas as Girroud thrives amid competition especially when coming on as a substitute.
For those who are
yearning for Wenger to leave don't worry I think he doesn't have
long to be manager at Arsenal.
In a city that cherishes its signature race and could be accused at times of possessing an inferiority complex that its crown jewel may no
longer carry the same relevance in the motor sports stratosphere as it once did, Alonso's
yearning to be among the participants made the Indianapolis 500 the unquestionable center of attention this month.
«We'd been
yearning to be here for so
long that when we were faced with the option of the Playoff or the Rose Bowl, it was like, «Eh, that's a pretty good consolation,»» Nick said.
Removing names by due process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up with the Rule of Law and Due Process and are
longing and
yearning for the return of dictatorial rule.
This has been a
long standing dream the NPP has
yearned for.
The Bronx is no
longer burning — instead it's
yearning... for more jobs.
As
long as there are people with the values who
yearn for a different kind of society then you're going to have a party that tries to put those values into practice.»
He's the sort of moderate Republican former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (a Republican himself not that
long ago)
yearns to see succeed.
Part of the reason for that
yearning may lie in the fact that people already live so
long and with such self - awareness.
As the forests of Madagascar and other Edens fall, and as species after species tumbles toward extinction, we all
yearn to hold onto the survivors a moment
longer — to touch something wild and mysterious before it disappears.
The dream of flight and a
yearning to explore have been embedded in human nature since
long before the Wright brothers first took wing a hundred years ago.
In the shadow of the attacks, the inscription at her base no
longer seems to address immigrants but rather speaks directly to New Yorkers who now find themselves disenfranchised and suffocating with disease: «Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free.»
I was
yearning to feel loved, and so I decided that being wanted by men was one way to receive the validation I was
longing for.
But after I had excelled for so
long in academic environments, lauded for my intellectual capacity, my spirit
yearned for some other kind of contact with life.
If you are
yearning to get away during these cold months, Zihua — as the locals call it — is an accessible and affordable vacation sure to provide you with warming memories that last
long after you've left paradise.