Quotes About Seeking

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry Help!

Eden is not the thing we seek. It is the thing we cannot find.

Then I started really studying what the Scriptures say, and God showed me that it wasn't my job to do the heavy lifting. No. That was something that only He could do. It was my job to seek Him, to trust Him, and to stand on His Word.

Without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary." (Psalms 63: 1-2)

She seeks meaning in this, but it is simply that which is immeasurable.

I didn't want to continue in my present state if there was even the remotest possibility of finding further help, no matter where in the world I would have to go to find it.

Whatever solace TJ Farrelly sought, he would have to find it on his own. She had racked her brain until she had realized the truth: she had none to give.

Man seeks oblivion .

I don't know anything about light, from where it comes, nor where it goes I only want the light to light up. . .

Por qué esperar al Cielo? Los que buscan la luz están simplemente cubriéndose los ojos. 3 La luz ya está en ellos. 4 La iluminación es simplemente un reconocimiento, no un cambio.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

My spirit is no longer what it was. Vaguely I seek, everywhere. I must see things with all their consequences, and right to their source. Against all the chains of facts I must have long arguments to bring; and the world's chaos requires an interpretation equally terrible.

Will reading the Book of Mormon now and then ensure faith in the Lord Jesus Christ? You wouldn't count on it if you read Nephi carefully. He said the Holy Ghost is "the gift of God unto all those who diligently seek him." Diligently surely means regularly. And it surely means pondering and praying. And the praying will surely include a fervent pleading to know the truth. Anything less would hardly be diligent. And anything less will not be enough for you and for me.

We aspire to the top to look for Rest; it lies at the bottom. Water rests only when it gets to the lowest place. So do men.

But if you find yourself experiencing a desire to seek God, we have great news for you: God is already at work in you.

People don't ask questions about spiritual matters unless God is at work in their lives. When you see someone seeking God or asking questions about Christianity, you are witnessing God at work.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate in the soul of man. And the human intellect, with no inkling of the immense variety and complexity of circumstances conditioning a phenomenon, any one of which may be separately conceived of as the cause of it, snatches at the first and most easily understood approximation, and says here is the cause.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him

Therein is the whole business of one's life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.

What are these deaths and revivals? It is clear that I do not live whenever I lose my faith in the existence of God, and I would have killed myself long ago if I did not have some vague hope of finding God. I truly live only whenever I am conscious of him and seek him. "What, then, do I seek?" a voice cried out within me. "He is there, the one without whom there could be no life." To know God and to liVe come to one and the same thing. God is life.

Sta?o si? z nim to, co zawsze dzieje si? z lud?mi, którzy zwracaj? si? do wiedzy nie po to, ?eby odgrywa? w niej rol?: pisa?, dyskutowa?, uczy? innych, lecz zwracaj? si? do wiedzy z bezpo?rednimi, prostymi ?yciowymi pytaniami; nauka odpowiada?a mu na tysi?ce ró?nych bardzo trudnych i zawi?ych pyta?, tylko nie na te pytania, na które szuka? odpowiedzi.