Quotes About Seeking

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.

Whatever you seek is within you!

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

We don't seek God's power, we seek His presence. His power & everything else we need is always found in His presence.

God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.

questing is more important than finding, and a journey is more important than the mere arrival at a destination

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

my atheism is a conviction not based on evidence, though it leads me to seek a certain kind of solution to the evident inadequacy of materialism.

Today, many people travel through life without clear spiritual direction. They cling to the popular religious beliefs of their culture. They settle for tradition and faith instead of seeking personal spiritual experience.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Oh! for a closer walk with God.

Even when he'd arrived he'd had restless eyes, eyes that were always looking about as if he might notice some place he'd rather be and head out for it immediately.

We need do no more to lose our souls than to seek ourselves.

Love is spiritual; it is something that will never be fully comprehendible through science or through written word, love at its core is an emotion. It is as intangible as faith, you must have it to understand it, or believe it exists to seek it.

There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

Is it that the eye finds what the mind is seeking?

Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God

Alas, that so much of my precious time is spent with so little of God.

Oh, a barn, or stable, hedge, or any other place is desirable, if God is there.

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

You are that which you seek, but you have left your own deepness and are looking elsewhere. The stress of not finding it creates its own need to be released. And so the cycle continues. You are chasing your own tail, and much of the time that tail looks suspiciously like a woman.

Gilgamesh wandered in the wilderness grieving over the death of Enkidu and weeping saying: "Enkidu has died. Must I die too? Must Gilgamesh be like that?" Gilgamesh felt the fear of it in his belly. He said to himself that he would seek the son of Ubartutu, Utnapishtim, he, the only one of men by means of whom he might find out how death could be avoided. He said to himself that he would hasten to him, the dangers of the journey notwithstanding.