Quotes About Seeking

We all have experiences, but as T. S. Eliot said, we had the experience but missed the meaning. Every human heart seeks meaning; for it is in meaning that our deepest shelter lies.

In each person, there is a point of absolute nonconnection with everything else and with everyone. This is fascinating and frightening. It means that we cannot continue to seek outside ourselves for the things we need from within.

Superstition seeks to use the supernatural for my purposes; faith seeks to surrender to God's purposes. Faith teaches us that there is a Person behind the universe, and that Person responds to communication just as all persons do. Prayer is the primary way we communicate with God, and that's why prayer is so closely associated with seeking and discerning open doors.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

You often find what you're looking for.

God rewards those who put Him first and seek to do His will.

You ought to explore, search and seek the unlimited possibilities in life

Be the good & seek the good. Faith fights anxieties… go after your faith with body, mind & soul.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

The more you repent, the more you get answers, the more you distance, the more you get questions.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord.

God, you are a requirement, a neccessity, in my life. Help me to seek you with all of my heart, mind, soul and life.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The girls who don't seek attention are usually the girls you need to be giving your attention to.

but the pleasures that we have chosen can be a long way off if their advent is certain and if, while we await them, we can give ourselves over in the meantime to an idle seeking to attract and to an incapacity for love.

We do not know where to find what we seek; and often we avoid for a long time the very place to which others, for other reasons, invite us, not knowing that it is the very spot where we could meet the one who is in our thoughts.

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