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James Merritt
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- The Soul
- Spiritual Hunger
There is a spiritual hunger in the human heart and an eternal hunger in the human soul that can never be satisfied with anything other than Jesus Christ, the Bread of Life.
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Christopher Lasch
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Matthew 11:28-30, Luke 10:39-42, Colossians 3:1-2, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:19-21
People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic securit...
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Joni Eareckson Tada
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- Spiritual Hunger
To hunger is to be human, but to hunger for God is to feed on Him. Hunger and thirst after His righteousness and feed on Him in your heart. Taste and see that the Lord is good; it is He who will fill ...
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Kent Hughes
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It works like this: we hunger spiritually and are then filled and become supremely satisfied. The satisfaction then makes way for a deeper spiritual hunger, a further filling and blessed satisfaction....
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Ashley Hales
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Psalm 34:8, Jeremiah 31:25, Matthew 4:4, Revelation 7:16-17, Isaiah 55:1, Psalm 107:9, John 6:35
Healing begins at the place of hunger.
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Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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- Spiritual Hunger
- Activities
Do you want to increase your hunger for the Lord? Try weaning yourself from the world’s diet-be prepared for some withdrawal symptoms when you turn off the radio and the TV and eliminate unnecessary a...
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Mother Teresa
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- Spiritual Hunger
People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but ther...
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Thomas Watson
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God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritu...
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Michael Card
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- Spiritual Hunger
- Beauty
A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.
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John Piper
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- Spiritual Hunger
The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the ...
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Christie Purifoy
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Our hunger is the exile’s hunger, but it is also the first step in our homecoming. We hunger, and in doing so learn the shape of our emptiness is the world’s great emptiness in or to prepare room for ...
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Eugene H. Peterson
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- Spiritual Hunger
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
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Frederick Buechner
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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
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Wesley L. Duewel
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- Fasting
- Spiritual Hunger
Fasting in the biblical sense is choosing not to partake of food because your spiritual hunger is so deep, you determination in intercession so intense, or your spiritual warfare so demanding that you...
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Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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Self-indulgence is the enemy of gratitude, and self-discipline usually its friend and generator. That is why gluttony is a deadly sin. The early desert fathers believed that a person’s appetites are l...
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Augustine of Hippo
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Matthew 13:13, Matthew 13:1-23, Isaiah 6:9-10, Isaiah 6:9-10, John 9:39-41, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 1:18
You called, shouted, broke through my deafness; you flared, blazed, banished my blindness; you lavished your fragrance, I gasped; and now I pant for you; I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst; you...
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Frederick Buechner
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John 13:
Neither the hair shirt nor the soft berth will do. The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
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Jonathan Edwards
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- Spiritual Hunger
Persons need not and ought not to set any bounds to their spiritual and gracious appetites, [instead they ought] to be endeavoring by all possible ways to inflame their desires and to obtain more spir...
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A. W. Tozer
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The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.
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John Piper
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- Spiritual Hunger
- The Christian Life
The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of so...
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Addison D. Bevere
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Ephesians 1:13-14, Galatians 5:22-23, 1 Corinthians 2:12-13, Romans 8:9-11, 1 John 2:27, John 16:7-8, John 15:26-27
When he died, he sent his Spirit to teach us the intricacies of the art of living. That’s why his Spirit is the only One who can fill our spiritual vacuum, helping us become truly human.
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Ruth Haley Barton
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Your desire for more of God than you have right now, your longing for love, your need for deeper levels of spiritual transformation than you have experienced so far is the truest thing about you. You ...
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John Piper
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The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
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Mother Teresa
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- Spiritual Hunger
- Hopelessness
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and...
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Gregory Boyle
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I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.
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Pope John Paul II
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John 6:35-51, Matthew 4:4, Deuteronomy 8:3
Farmers everywhere provide bread for all humanity, but it is Christ alone who is the bread of life. He alone satisfies the deepest hunger of humanity…. Even if all the physical hunger of the world wer...
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Mark Batterson
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- Spiritual Hunger
If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different perso...
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Alexander Schmemann
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To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that “something more” is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirst...
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Bruce Springsteen
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Everybody’s got a hungry heart.
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Fred Smith
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It's important, as we go along in life, to create thirsts that death will satisfy.