Quotes About Seeking

Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I'd sought.

Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The truth is, those who diligently seek to learn of Christ eventually will come to know Him. They will personally receive a divine portrait of the Master, although it most often comes in the form of a puzzle - one piece at a time.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

I know enough of God to want to know more.

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.

A beautiful heart wants to know God and gets to know him through his Word.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

By that argument, is not the opposite equally true? That what we reject ceases. That 'truth' is born in what we seek. That we create in order to believe. That we find only what we have created. That wonder does not exist outside ourselves? By our belief, we create the gods. And so, in turn, we can destroy them. With a single thought. A moment's refusal, an instant's denial.