Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up
“There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 390.
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