Quotes About Seeking

There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious weed, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself.

We may never say, "I was looking for God, and I found him." We may only ever testify, "I was not looking for any God other than myself—and he found me." You did not work it out. Our seeking never does. He sought you out and he saved your soul, and this is the testimony we all share.

This was the chief underlying principle of Calvin's exposition: He was always seeking to discover the "one definite thought" behind what the biblical author wrote. Calvin believed this was the expositor's first duty:

Perhaps what he'd been seeking was simply his own self, and he'd been guilty of imposing omens on words and places.

They had come here seeking the past, and maybe they had found it. But not in the way they'd imagined.

I thought my seach was over. I'm tired of travelling, of looking for invisible things.

Valraven Palindrake must seek the way of light, for only then can past wounds be healed.

This is the way of things, she thought. We seek answers and enlightenment, and expect to find it in others, but essentially, it is down to us.

It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.

Those who are thirsty for wisdom Will ever move toward the source of the wisdom That quenches their thirst.

It seemed that all her life she'd been seeking someone's approval: Father's, Grandmother's... hell, all of society's. Well, she was through. She hadn't asked for anything this time—not a blessed thing—but even that wasn't good enough.

Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...

The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job.

I don't look for love. Love looks for me." "Why?" "Because it needs me. Because I'm not afraid of it.

They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.

Find mebeneath your tongue, but not with other lipsnor by another tongueFind melet your yearning run wild as thirst seeks wateras silence seeks the soundFind meand I will be on my way...

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

Why would they want to?

Sufis tell of two paths to transcendence:

Philosophy is like science and unlike history in that it seeks general truths rather than an account of particular events, either in the near or distant past.