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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

— Lucy Stone

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

— Ernest Shackleton

I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

— Victoria Osteen

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

— Plato

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

— George Eliot

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

— Thomas R. Kelly

I truly believe that God provides.

— Katharine McPhee

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

— Martha McSally

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

— Samuel Butler

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

— Aldous Huxley

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

— John Shelby Spong

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