Quotes About Seeking

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

We spend some days just driving around looking for houses that we like that might be for sale.

You would be amazed how many people call my office looking for work every day.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

Prophecy will confirm and broaden the vision; it cannot create one if nothing is there. Vision is created through prayer, seeking God and sharing our hearts with people in the work. If these things are absent we need to be restoring people to God, not creating vision for empty hearts.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

Who could blame her for seeking my scars in return? When we are unhappy we hurt.

Throughout my life, I sought power and profit for myself, for my rate. Now, at long last, I think I understand the meaning of a crime against the Mantle. After this, no need to seek balance. I will await my penance here.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.

In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It's brave of him.

El que vive aislado busca su propio deseo, contra todo consejo se encoleriza" (Proverbios 18:1 La Biblia de las Américas).

I felt so thirsty for God, so embarrassed by Christianity, and so ready for something more.

We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

The best time to seek God is when it's really hard to find the time because that's when we probably need Him the most.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again

when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand:

seek not a fellow-feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated.15 But now, that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy?

I shut my eyes a long time ago. The things I seek lie only in darkness.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist. But we think that the Council of Scholars is blind. The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. We know, for we have found a secret unknown to all our brothers.