Quotes About Pursuit

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.

Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.

He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.

How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.

But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.

But many people saw them leaving and recognized them. They ran together on foot from all the towns and arrived before them.

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

In this pursuit I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;