Quotes About Pursuit

Sometimes people ask: should we pursue obedience to God or joy in God? Edwards would answer: The question involves a category confusion. It's like asking: should I pursue fruit or apples? Obedience is doing what we are told. And we are told to delight ourselves in the Lord. Therefore pursuing joy in God is obedience. In

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

No siempre tuve en claro que la búsqueda de la gloria de Dios sería prácticamente lo mismo que la búsqueda de mi propio gozo. Ahora veo que millones de personas desperdician sus vidas porque creen que estos caminos son dos senderos diferentes y no el mismo.

The wisdom of God's providence in bringing us from conversion to glory engages our wholehearted pursuit of holiness but reserves the decisive power for God himself. We act the miracle. God causes it.

Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

We have forgotten what Thomas Jefferson told us in 1776: that we are endowed by the Creator "with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Not happiness, mind you, but its pursuit. By implication Jefferson warned that if you pursue happiness for someone else, you deny him the right to pursue it on his own.

I invite you to join me in the pursuit of success. Let's not stop until we run as far and fast and as long as we can, as He empowers us.

define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth.

Down the ribboned aisle, the rubber smell discarded for the more certain scent of Peter's footsteps, came two animated mops of dust and swamp ooze. They came swiftly, surely, and they threw themselves with abandon at Peter, who they had come so far to find.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

She was a nightmare quilt from hooves to eyebrows, and she was running for her life.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge, not for any of the reasons that you hear. We give out the reasons, and we let a few of the ordinary ones in, those that would do in the world; but that's just protective coloration.

Men love independent women because they leave them alone. They love chasing women who are busy. It gives them a thrill, as big as a touchdown or a home run.

In the romantic world, there's only one way that truly works. The man must be attracted to and then pursue the woman.

Most crimes are committed by 'criminals'—that is to say, by individuals habituated by environment and repetitious conduct to the pursuit of law-breaking.

the quest for the Holy Grail itself is not more beset with difficulties than the merest seeking after one true, unvarnished word.

Dr. Edmonds smiled and shrugged. "It's a bit harsh, perhaps, but Ezra Pound once said, 'Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheepherding.' I think he was right. I seem to have spent my life with the sheep.

Ricerco un bene fuori di me. Non so chi 'l tiene non so cos'è. (Aria di Cherubino).

Merely desiring something is not advisable and encouraging. Yes! you've got to be longing for it (desire it strongly) as well, do quest for it unyieldingly or tirelessly, so that you can be able to surmount any challenge that might show up in the course of pursuing or realizing it. ~Emeasoba George

The driving force behind every career or profession is nothing else but passion. Yes! it (passion) kindles and rekindles one's desire to pursue and realize a vision or aspiration all over again and again, until he or she decides to retire. ~Emeasoba George

Dintre filosofi nu sunt interesanÈ›i decât cei care nemaiavând ce gândi s-au apucat s? caute fericirea.