Quotes About Seeking

And where people do not want to know God, he usually allows them to be without him—at least for a while. When desire conflicts with reality, sooner or later reality wins.

If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him.

Seek and ye shall find.

The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion—good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.

La fe es universal. Son nuestros métodos específicos para comprenderla los que son arbitrarios. Hay personas que rezan a Jesús, otras que van a La Meca, y las hay que estudian partículas subatómicas. Sin embargo, al final lo que hacemos todos es buscar la verdad, aquello que es más grande que todos nosotros.

All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.

WHEREVER I AM, I AM WHAT IS MISSING.

And by what secret differing springs are the affections hurried about, as differing circumstances present! To-day we love what to-morrow we hate- to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun- to-day we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.

Rather than jumping straight into the answers, let's try to start students off with the sort of questions that encourage them to do their own seeking.

People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself!

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

A spring wind blowing the smell of the ground through the intersections of traffic, the mind turns, seeks a new nativity- another place, simpler, less weighted by what has already been.

One has sufficient enemies amongst men without deliberately seeking out others amongst the gods.

The whole thing [life] is a 'Racket,' so get a few laughs, do the best you can, take nothing serious, for nothing is certainly depending on this generation. Each one lives in spite of the previous one and not because of it. And don't start "seeking knowledge," for the more you seek the nearer the "Booby Hatch" you get.

There's nothing wrong with seeking the opinion of people you trust. Only an idiot thinks he's so smart he can't benefit from input from others. Ben Kincaid

I sought my God and my God I couldn't find; I sought my soul and my soul eluded me; I sought to serve my brother in his need, and I found all three; My God, my soul, and thee.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

But always beyond seas, and there was no body to be returned clumsily to earth, and so to her he seemed still to be laughing at that word as he had laughed at all other mouthsounds that stood for repose, who had not waited for Time and its furniture to teach him that the end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. Aunt Sally rocked steadily in her chair.

the end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it... (Sartoris)

What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey

I want the truth of things. But there's nowhere to find it.