Quotes About Seeking

One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one's own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him.

If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

9 Así les digo yo, añadió Jesús: Pidan, y se les dará; busquen, y hallarán; llamen, y se les abrirá. 10 Porque todo aquel que pide, recibe; y quien busca, halla; y al que llama, se le abrirá.

He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth

What's the will of God for my life? You don't need to know the will of God in your life, you need to know the God of your life!

The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.

Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the place you seek will follow.

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

Sri Ramakrishna said, Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

A mind willing to learn deserves commendation even when it has no teacher. What is of importance to me is not what you find but what you seek to find. Wax is soft and easy to mould even where the hands of craftsman and modeller are wanting to work it.

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.

The Bible never speaks of God's grace as simply making up our deficiencies--as if salvation consists in so much good works (even a variable amount) plus so much of God's grace. Rather the Bible speaks of "a God who justifies the wicked" (Romans 4:5) who is found by those who do not seek Him, who reveals Himself to those who do not ask for Him (see Romans 10:20).