Yearnt

Come to me, my children—come to your future home, and come quickly, for this blow has been almost too much for my strength, and I yearnt to see you once more.

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He yearnt for the adoption of the means wherewith he could inspire his people with the feelings of love, manliness and sacrifice.

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Yearning is the beginning of spiritual life, of all possession of beauty and holiness. […] And if one lacks the yearning, one at least should yearn for the yearning. As David puts it: “I have yearnt a yearning, O Lord, for Thy righteousness!”

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The real Jesus can only be seen against the background of a Palestine whose Jewish people yearnt for liberation, and a Jewish people whose culture produced not only countless freedom fighters banking on the knife, but countless freedom fighters banking on god helping to bring about the Kingdom of God in the world in place of the Roman Empire.

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