Quotes About Seeking

We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel.

Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

It is always the way. Until a man knows God, he seeks to obey him by doing things he neither commands nor cares about;

There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer to the Kingdom of Heaven than many who have for years believed themselves of it. In the former there is more of the mind of Jesus, and when He calls them they recognize Him at once and go after Him; while the others examine Him from head to foot, and finding Him not sufficiently like the Jesus of their conception, turn their backs and go to church or chapel or chamber to kneel before a vague form mingled of tradition and fancy.

The faith which will remove mountains is that confidence in God which comes from seeking nothing but his will.

The immediate end of the commandments never was that men should succeed in obeying them, but that, finding they could not do that which yet must be done, finding the more they tried the more was required of them, they should be driven to the SOURCE of life and law ... to seek from Him such reinforcement of life as should make the fulfilment of the law as possible, yea, as natural, as necessary.

God in the dark can make a man thirst for the light, who never in the light sought but the dark.

For God alone is our salvation; to know him is salvation. He is in us all the time, else we could never move to seek him.

Thou speakest with true inspiration, Bansir. Thou bringeth to my mind a new understanding. Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it.

Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

Deneyin bizi al?p götürdüÄŸü yere götürmesini istedim.

I approach poetry: but only to miss it.

Busco a un tiempo lo eterno y lo efímero

I seek the eternal and the ephemeral.

She had felt the exquisite happiness of knowing herself to be sought after by the man of her choice; and when he had asked her to waltz with him a second time she had not hesitated.

I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

No matter how she beseeched the stars for guidance, their light remained far away and cold; they provided no answers and no comfort.

Every poor lady that came to me, that touched my hand, that drew a small part of my spirit from me to her—they were only shadows. Aurora, they were shadows of you! I was only seeking you out, as you were seeking me. You were seeking me, your own affinity. And if you let them keep me from you now, I think we shall die!