loneliness on Longing

Practically every human being . . . has experienced that strange inner gnawing, that mental hunger, that unsettling unrest that makes us say, ‘I feel lonely.’ Loneliness is one of the most universal e...

Good and Gracious God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: we come to You as an impatient people filled with a multitude of desires and needs. We yearn for simple things--the arrival of warm weather, enough...

Solitude is an opportunity to interrupt this cycle by turning off the noise and stimulation of our lives so that we can hear our loneliness and our longing calling us deeper into the only relationship...

If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning…and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, ...

In his book The DNA of Relationships counselor Gary Smalley argues from countless hours of research and observation alongside the wisdom of the Bible that we are hardwired for relationship. This i...

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

The lusts of the flesh reveal the loneliness of the soul.

Deep within there is a glorious and terrible empty space – loneliness. It is out of sight, pushing us to our best and to our worst. Behind every effort to make a friend – Behind ambition – Behind prid...

Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through accep...

Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you, As few human or even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight Has made my eyes sof...

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glor...

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”

Was ever grief like mine?

Jesus has journeyed to the far reaches of loneliness.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we learn that ultimately in this world there is no finished symphony.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Loneliness is a wilderness, but through receiving it as a gift, accepting it from the hand of God, and offering it back to him with thanksgiving, it may become a pathway to holiness, to glory and to G...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. (For Contrast).

Leader: God of love, when we wander away it is your grace that calls us back to you. All: You receive us with mercy, and we give thanks. Loving Christ, when we are lost and lonely in a far l...

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”

[Alienation is] “the state of mind that can find a social order remote, incomprehensible, or fraudulent.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

The wilderness is that season of our lives where God, through our loneliness, teaches us that his will is to do something in us, not merely do something for us. That is, by walking by faith and not by...

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude. But believers are not compared to bears or lions or other animals that wander alone. Those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that ...

O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help me to pray And to concentrate my thoughts on you: I cannot do this alone. In me there is darkness. But with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do n...

During my years caring for patients, the most common pathology I saw was not heart disease or diabetes; it was loneliness.

The greatest dis-ease facing humanity right now is our profound and painful sense of disconnection.