Quotes About Seeking

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

1. Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."--

He that seeks trouble never misses.

Another point that moderns do not grasp is that there is no reason for necessarily seeking the cause of a phenomenon on the plane where it is produced, and that on the contrary one has to consider the possibility of a non-material cause, above all when it is a question of a phenomenon whose beginning is unknown a priori, and unknowable materially, as is the origin of living beings.

In some ways contemporary Zen centers resemble halfway houses for people who are seeking ways to get by in the world without falling to pieces.

I seek the truth," Shallan said. "Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.

Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

The daring metaphor of Jesus as bridegroom suggests that the living God seeks more than an intimate relationship with us.

When one of England's finest writers, G. K. Chesterton, spoke of "the furious love of God," he was referencing the enormous vitality and strength of the God of Jesus seeking union with us.

May all that I know apart from You be nothing more than a chance traveling companion on the journey toward You.

But trust in the God who loves consistently and faithfully nurtures confident, free disciples. A loving God fosters a loving people. "The fact that our view of God shapes our lives to a great extent may be one of the reasons Scripture ascribes such importance to seeking to know Him."2

You can only seek God when you have already found God. The desire for God's unconditional love is the fruit of having been touched by that love.

Getting answers to my questions is not the goal of the spiritual life. Living in the presence of God is the greater call.

God is looking for you. He will go anywhere to find you. He loves you, he wants you home, he cannot rest unless he has you with him.

I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but, instead, as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.

God should be sought, but we cannot find God. We can only be found by him.

Solitude is not simply a means to an end. Solitude is its own end. It is the place where Christ remodels us in his own image and frees us from the victimizing compulsions of the world. Solitude is the place of our salvation. Hence, it is the place where we want to lead all who are seeking the light in this dark world.

La formación espiritual exige emprender un viaje al interior del corazón. Aunque este viaje se realiza dentro de la comunidad y conduce al servicio, la primera tarea es mirar dentro de uno mismo, reflexionar sobre nuestra vida cotidiana y buscar a Dios y su actuar justamente ahí.

The question is not "How am I to find God?" but "How am I to let myself be found by him?

What if we feel a yearning to which no breast answers?

I think that he should keep a caravansary on the world's highway, where philosophers of all nations might put up, and on his sign should be printed, "Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure and a quiet mind, who earnestly seek the right road.

The man of science, who is not seeking for expression but for a fact to be expressed merely, studies nature as a dead language. I pray for such inward experience as will make nature significant.

I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.