Quotes About Seeking

His (Guénon's) motto was vincit omnia veritas, "Truth conquers all", but implicitly his motto was "Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you". Implicit in his writings is the certainty that they will come providentially to those who are qualified to receive his message and they will impel them to seek and therefore to find a way.

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.

When you find yourself wanting love, know that it is like a lake looking for water.

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God has made the desire of our own happiness so necessary to the soul of man, that it cannot be separated from our desire to please him. Therefore, both in respect to God, and to our own happiness, "we must believe that he is the everlasting Rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Her ambition was an extremely distressing condition. She sought power the way a superstitious man might look for a four-leaf clover.

The great quest of Hinduism, Buddhism and Gnostic Christianity is to seek and find the means for liberating oneself from the bonds of the material, illusory, world.

Ask, and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks always receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened." —Matthew 7:7–8

Oh, but I don't abide by your time frame, giant, Reyna said. A Roman does not wait for death. She seeks it out, and meets it on her own terms.

I am still looking

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God.

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

it was indeed 'as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there'.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as possible — and, in friendly competition, to try to find more of them than the next birder. We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

The mystery of seeking God is that HE is the One who finds you.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.