Heartache, desire and disappointment.
“Hope rouses the desire from its slumber and makes us even more vulnerable to disappointment.”
“Despair,” wrote James Houston, “is the fate of the desiring soul.” Or as Scripture says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick” (Prov. 13:12).
“To desire is to open our hearts to the possibility of pain; to shut down our hearts is to die altogether.”
"The full proverb reads this way: ‘Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when dreams come true, there is life and joy.’
The road to life and joy lies through, not around, the heartsickness of hope deferred.”
- Quotations from Journey of Desire, Eldredge
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