Top 5 'Innate Desire for God' Quotes

Every person has ‘Innate Desire for God’ because we want to be happy. Innate desire is best described as a deep-seated hunger and thirst for happiness in God. Here are six quotes that confirm this universal hunger and thirst for God...

1. “My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?” -Psalm 42:2

2. “O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.” -Psalm 63:1

3. “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” -CS Lewis , Mere Christianity

4. “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” -Augustine, Confessions

5. “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.”  -Blaise Pascal

Bonus: “The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for: The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God”. -CCC 27