Quotes About Seeking

I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.

Spend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

I needed to find out what my goals were and what my mission was. After some quiet time and just seeking the Lord, He brought some people to the table that understood where I was trying to go.

In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We're not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We're looking for a softer orientation to life.

standing quietly by the window still hungry for I don't know what

Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God.

The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.

There's no need to seek the truth-just put a stop to your opinions! -SENG-TS'AN

Never let your zeal for serving Him get ahead of your prayer for seeking Him.

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious—the people, events, and things of the day—to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Un corazón inquieto es la base del peregrinar. En el ser humano habita un ansia». SAN AGUSTÍN

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

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.

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

As for the life of money-making, it is one of constraint, and wealth manifestly is not the good we are seeking, because it is for use, that is, for the sake of something further:

People say that we're searching for the meaning of life. I don't think that's it at all. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved.

mystery was piling upon mystery, and that for all his efforts he was getting further and further from any understanding of the truths he sought.

He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.

It's the human condition. We're all more or less looking for a place to hide.

So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about – He is looking for us.

Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object no corner is left for saying 'I'. We cannot imagine such joys when they are absent, thus the incentive for seeking them is lacking.