The Holy Longing
The longing that Augustine describes is less like curiosity and more like hunger—less like an intellectual puzzle to be solved and more like a craving for sustenance (see Ps. 42:1–2).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot • Middlemarch (AmazonClassics Edition)
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Rainer Maria Rilke