Quotes About Seeking

There is a God we want, and there is a God who is. They are not the same God. The turning point of our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.

Haven't you ever felt like there has to be more? Like there's more out there somewhere, just beyond your grasp, if you could only get to it..

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

Quizá sea propio de la naturaleza humana buscar cosas ocultas.

Pero incluso buscarla y no encontrarla era reconfortante, en cierto modo. En cierto modo, ese parecía ser el fundamento de nuestra relación.

It's like what Teccam wrote, 'The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought …'" "'… but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought,

the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.

The Chelsea was like a doll's house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe. I wandered the halls seeking its spirits, dead or alive.

Man, the bravest animal and most prone to suffer, does not deny suffering as such: he wills it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. —Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.

Repeatedly seeking wise counsel is a good thing; repeatedly seeking stamps of approval is a sad thing. Why do [women] go from person to person asking, "Do you think I should do this?" Answer: Because they want other people's approval and/or their permission. This is little-girl behavior, and it makes women look uncertain, weak, and incompetent at work.

We weren't created to find our satisfaction in the little, earthbound kingdom treasures of the here and now. We were created to seek a better treasure, and in so doing to be eternally grateful and satisfied.

you become like the treasure that you seek.

Change is about learning what is right, acknowledging that it is right, confessing that you have been wrong, committing to a new way of living, and seeking the help you need to do it. (66)

You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship. To be wise, you first need to be rescued from you. You need to be given a new heart, one that is needy, humble, seeking, and ready to get from above what you can't find on this earth. And then you need to be brought into a relationship with the One who is wisdom.

need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give.

Ultimately, we should all be seeking to use our time in ways that bring us the greatest overall pleasure and purpose for as long as possible. Just as you cannot recover time that is lost, you cannot recover happiness that is lost. Staying in a boring job or an annoying relationship simply prolongs the misery and any future happiness is unlikely to fully compensate for this loss. Lost happiness is lost forever.

What really drives us to seek help is an equally frightening sensation: that of being alive, yet not really living.

Finally, let's take a look at the mystery of the Nativity—specifically, the response of the Magi when they finally have the consolation of looking upon the Lord whom they had so ardently sought: "And going into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother, and they fell down and worshiped Him" (Mt 2:11). In sum, Mary becomes a living tabernacle. Jesus' hidden presence has great power. As soon as God is made visible, He is adored. A

We do not posses God. We find him periodically.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in what is not a relief from what is. Now the real, now illusion is our refuge; and the soul has finally no other resource but the true, which is her weapon -- and falsehood, which is her armor.

I'll keep praying and asking God to reveal something more—if there is more.

Because everyone wants to be looked for, whether they realize it or not.