Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.