Quotes About Seeking

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

God is always a good God; right is right; and with every disadvantage there is a greater advantage, if one seeks and finds it.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

a lo largo de toda la juventud te estuve buscando sin saber lo que estaba buscando

For it is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for

As we seek Christ, as we find Him, as we follow Him, we shall have the Christmas spirit, not for one fleeting day each year, but as a companion always.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

He did this despite its causing him to feel keenly not the presence he was seeking but rather the absence of one he'd never seen anywhere other than in photos

If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.

The question {WHY}, though, never goes away-- not for me, not for anybody. We keep groping toward light while living in darkness.

How differently will I relate to the uncommitted if I view them not as evil or unsaved but rather as lost.

Los israelitas dieron amplias pruebas de que podemos llegar a desear las señales sin desear en realidad a Dios.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him. And they cried out in a great voice: He made us. CS Lewis

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know;—that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

The good is twice described in the Philebus as perfect, self- sufficient and seeked by all conscious beings. And the good does not have a contrary: it is not the one end of a scale whose evil would be the other end; it is a measure on any scale. Taken from Bernard Suzanne Plato and his dialogues Pursuing Goodness or the Good. Updated Nov 21, 1998

To speak knowing the truth, among prudent and dear men, about what is greatest and dear, is a thing that is safe and encouraging. But to present arguments at a time when one is in doubt and seeking... is a thing both frightening and slippery.

Always seek wisdom and live a virtuous life.

The qualities, which a man seeks in his beloved, are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

But none of us can claim an innate spiritual advantage. In reality, we are all equally disadvantaged. None of us naturally seeks after God, none is inherently righteous, none instinctively does good (cf. Romans 3:9-18). Therefore, as children of grace, our spiritual discipline is everything — everything! I repeat . . . discipline is everything!

When any man of any nation cries out in his wish to know God, then his questions merit considering.