If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us while the storm did not abate we agreed to trust to God Our Lord and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control small disciplines of prayer feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

For sure the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and dare I say a wave of optimism that things can be different.

Always through my whole life I've had a thirst for knowledge.

The desire of knowledge like the thirst of riches increases ever with the acquisition of it.

In your thirst for knowledge be sure not to drown in all the information.

Uncontrolled the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.