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Quotes About Seeking

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.
~ Meister Eckhart
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
~ Oswald Chambers
The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
~ Rumi
Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
~ Brother Lawrence
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
~ Hannah More
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
~ Alan Cohen
I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.
~ Benjamin Franklin
How terrible the need for God.
~ Theodore Roethke
He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
~ Thomas a Kempis
You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.
~ Matisyahu
From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.
~ Mother Teresa
No wide road leads to God.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face.
~ Oliver Cowdery
Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.
~ Dave Hunt
If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.
~ David Platt
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
~ Erwin McManus
Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.
~ Kayla Mueller
Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.
~ Bill Johnson
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
~ Andre Gide
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
~ Blaise Pascal
[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.
~ Brigham Young
A girl should get so lost in God, that a guy has to seek God to find her!
~ Dannah Gresh
Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?
~ Sylvia Plath