Quotes About Seeking

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise.

We are bored with God because our heartsq do not hunger for God, seek God, love God

God, I don't know whether you exist or not. Maybe I'm praying to nobody, but maybe I'm praying to you. So if you are really there, please let me know somehow, because I do want to know. I want only the Truth, whatever it is. If you are the Truth, here I am, ready and willing to follow you wherever you lead.

As Francis Thompson wrote in his classic poem "The Hound of Heaven," "Is my gloom, after all, shade of His hand outstretched caressingly?

Seek and you shall find" does not refer to anything else: long life, conquest of earthly enemies, freedom from pain, disease, death, betrayal, weakness, and so on. But it does refer to God and to that which God is: "God is agap?." That is why all who seek it find it. De Caussade says: "If you search for this kingdom where God alone rules, you can be quite sure you will find it" (p. 112).

Religion is not to go to God by forsaking the world but to find Him in it.

Years of charismatic psychological indoctrination suppressed awareness. Later on, seeking professional help was not an option.

But the problem is not just with accumulated power, but also with those who seek it. As scientist and author David Brin pointedly noted, "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.

like the rest of us he seeks an external savior.

You will have to stop searching for me because l will never stop searching for you.

He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves—the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself. Matter loves matter. It seeks to know more about itself, and Dust is formed.

Another crack, and this time the bullet went deep somewhere inside, seeking out the centre of his life. He thought: it won't find it there. Hester's my centre.

This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so desirable that it's constantly faked or exaggerated, and claims that one is not a victim are met with indignation.

The only thing we should seek in prayer is God. When we focus on how we are doing or what we are getting out of prayer, we have taken our eyes off God and put them back on our self.

In its most basic terms Christian spirituality is a relationship with God. Perhaps the most remarkable thing to notice about this Christian God is that is it he who has sought us out, not we him. In fact, anything that we experience as desire for him is simply the result of his Spirit's calling us to himself. Spirituality is the response of spirit to Spirit.

he who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks for the most part in vain.

You may search the Word of God but you will never find peace first—it is always "grace and peace" never "peace and grace." They are the Siamese twins of the Bible. You cannot have peace until you first have had grace. A man may search and seek until the end of his life, but until he receives grace through Christ, he can never have peace.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

If he said anything to me, I would gather the sentences like a shell seeker.

Really, he could be anywhere now, because he wants to be nowhere.

Todos en algún instante de nuestra vida necesitamos regresar a la caverna.

that which he most loved i hated; and the very determination which he expressed to keep me in ignorance, only rendered me the more resolute in seeking intelligence

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.