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Quotes About Seeking

Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.
~ Thomas a Kempis
If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.
~ Dwight L. Moody
I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
~ Elie Wiesel
You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
~ Evelyn Underhill
I am athirst for God, the living God.
~ Jean Ingelow
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.
~ Mary Doria Russell
I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
~ Saint Augustine
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.
~ Saint Basil
Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.
~ Samuel Chadwick
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
~ Meher Baba
You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?
~ Ormond McGill
The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.
~ Asa Mahan
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Oh, to know God's private address.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!
~ Thomas Merton
He who truly seeks God has found Him.
~ John Wooden
When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
~ Meister Eckhart
We look for God as though he were not already here.
~ Merrit Malloy
When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.
~ Pete Wilson
The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.
~ Richard Sibbes
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
~ Rumi
Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.
~ Saint Augustine