Spiritual Thirst Quotes

• It frankly does not make sense to occasionally 'fill up' with water, with long periods of dehydration in between. The same thing is true spiritually. Spiritual thirst is a need for living water. A constant flow of living water is far superior to sporadic sipping.

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  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual   Long   Water  

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• Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

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  Jim George

  Spiritual   Water   Desert  

  Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart”, p.20, Harvest House Publishers

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• It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

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  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual   Jesus   Heart  

  "Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions".

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• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual   Order   Humanity  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

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  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Spiritual   Brother   Thinking  

  "Remembering Our Purpose". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1993.

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• One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.

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  Max Lucado

  Spiritual   Husband   Real  

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• Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

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  Van Morrison

  Spiritual   Firsts   Hunger  

  Song: Satisfied, Album: Common One

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• It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.

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  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual   Lonely   Hate  

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

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• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational   Peace   Freedom  

  1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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