Quotes About Seeking

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

The important thing is never to stop questioning.

the satisfaction of one answer merely leads to asking another question, and so on into infinity.

The story of drug-taking constitutes one of the most curious and also, it seems to me, one of the most significant chapters in the natural history of human beings. Everywhere and at all times, men and women have sought, and duly found, the means of taking a holiday from the reality of their generally dull and often acutely unpleasant existence. A holiday out of space, out of time, in the eternity of sleep and ecstasy, in the heaven or the limbo of visionary phantasy.

O my God, how does it happen in this poor old world that Thou art so great and yet nobody finds Thee, that Thou callest so loudly and nobody hears Thee, that Thou art so near and nobody feels Thee, that Thou givest Thyself to everybody and nobody knows Thy name? Men flee from Thee and say they cannot find Thee; they turn their backs and say they cannot see Thee; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear Thee. Hans Denk

Claro, no todos ellos son fáciles de orar —los salmos imprecatorios son más difíciles de usar en oración que el Salmo 23—, pero todos ellos son inspirados por Dios. Si te tomas 30 segundos para revisar cinco salmos cada día, no sería extraño que uno de ellos dé en el blanco con lo que estás buscando en tu corazón.

She taught us to ask. Never be afeared to look dumb. 'Cause looking dumb don't matter. Being dumb, that matter. So just ask. And if you don't get a straight answer, then go seeking. No matter what it is. Just go seeking.

And you who seek to know me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: For if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee

Then [after you find God's plans] you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:12-13).

Jesus uses one of the most powerful pictures in the Bible of his seeking love for lost people. He portrays himself standing at the door of the church or standing at the door of a human heart and knocking. It's unlikely that the entire religious crowd at Laodicea would repent, but Jesus is hopeful that at least one will hear his knock or his voice calling. If anyone responds and opens the door, Jesus will enter that heart and change that life.

He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who for it renounces life.

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.