Quotes About Seeking

Epicurus even defined pleasure as the absence of pain: not exactly a formula for a life of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Still, the underlying principle of his philosophy—that the one thing all nature seeks to avoid is pain, and the one thing it seeks to gain is pleasure, and men should do the same—was only an extreme version of Aristotle's theory of knowledge based on our senses.

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

True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.

When you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you" (Jer. 29:13–14). When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

I proclaimed a fast . . . that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for ourselves, our children, and all our goods" (Ezra 8:21, 23, 31).

But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, No matter where I turn my steps, The knives of misery will cut me down, The wage and retribution of a sinful life.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.

Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.

If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? —Matthew 18:12 niv

The one thing I ask of the Lord — the thing I seek most — is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord's perfections. —Psalm 27:4

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. —Matthew 7:8

When we love the Lord and seek Him in the stillness of our hearts, He hears us and answers. — Susan E. Ramsden

A person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people. —Romans 2:29

Searching for God is not always easy, but when we seek Him, we'll find Him—at Christmas and any other day of the year. — Jenni Davenport

Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. —Matthew 7:7

As psychologist Susan Weinschenk explained,[52] 'dopamine causes us to want, desire, seek out, and search'. Yet 'the dopamine system is stronger than the opioid system. We seek more than we are satisfied. ... Seeking is more likely to keep us alive than sitting around in a satisfied stupor.

Possibly, I too shall take the train at that station one day, and go and seek around thy lakes, O Norway, O silent Scandinavia... Possibly, someday, I shall hear the lonely echoes of the North repeat the singing of her who knew the Angel of Music...

I said he had called them because it was from his mind that we drew them, seeking those who hated him, or at least had reason to. The giant you saw might have mastered the Commonwealth, had Severian not defeated him. The blond woman could not forgive him for bringing her back from death.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine.

We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.