Aspiration – Zitate

O God, Thou art my God; early will I seek Thee; my soul thirsteth for Thee; my flesh longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.

— Psalms

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing,— yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it knows now.

— H. W. Beecher

Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends—all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father who would call us homeward towards Himself—all these are the ground and justification for a Christian discontent; but a murmuring, questioning, fault-finding spirit has direct and sympathetic alliance with nothing but the infernal.

— J. G. Holland

In truth, there is no religion, no worship in our prosperity and ease. So far as we are happy, we are in a state of satisfied desire; so far as we are religious, we are in a state of aspiration and unsatisfied desire.

— James Martineau

Father! forgive the heart that clings    Thus trembling to the things of time, And bid my soul, on angel's wings    Ascend into a purer clime.

— Jane Roscoe