Quotes About Pursuit

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

God pursues me, he sacrificed for me, and he calls me his beloved! And, not just me... all of us.

The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

keep searching, keep seeking.

The knowledge of God is a sacred pursuit.

You create a strong, unshakable internal core by unshakable internal core by understanding and pursuing the attributes that you want to inherit from your creator

As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Run from being good. Chase being great.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.