Quotes About Seeking

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Why, what is it, how can flesh and blood come up with such stuff, how can flesh feel it. My lord life is strange. How is that Meaning comes to be? How? How does life cast it up, shape it, exude it; how does Meaning come to have physical, tangible effects, to be felt with a shock, to cause grief or longing, come to be sought for like food; pure Meaning having nothing to do with the clothes of persons or events in which it is dressed and yet not ever divorceable from some set of such clothes?

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.

Christianity and the Holy Spirit is not just for a special group of people, it's for all of us. That's when I really began to seek God and his will for my life.

Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That's all. You were made for God. Don't waste it.

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

There was the Door to which I found no Key;There was the Veil through which I might not see.Some little talk awhile of Me and TheeThere was—and then no more of Thee and Me.

The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

When you learn to find in God what you seek for in the world, freedom's bell is rung!

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

I sat alone in that stupid forest asking God to tell me what to do.

Those who love seek a philosophy and, because of this, are fond of solitude.

Reason tells the soul how mistaken it is in thinking that all these earthly things are of the slightest value by comparison with what it is seeking. A little recollection reminds it that all these things come to an end. And faith instructs it in what the soul must do to find satisfaction. . . .

Also, while you go out into the world unconsciously seeking that long-desired security, without extensive experience with what you seek, you often repeat the same old mistakes, choosing again and again the same familiar sort of person who makes you feel insecure.

Mi sento come quando all'improvviso si mette a piovere forte, ti guardi intorno e non trovi un posto dove ripararti.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

They do not seek "safety." They seek to destroy.