Quotes About Pursuit

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it

I enjoy the hunt much more than the "good life" after the victory.

A hard man is good to find.

Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Life drew me and I followed it.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny

After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.

it would be lovely if he and his wife would succeed in dying before the matter of inherited property was finally settled. Then the person giving the speech at the funeral would be able to say that until the very end they had been able to pursue what they loved: sailing. [p. 121]

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.

When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

the pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace; otherwise it is doomed to failure.

So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

The pursuit of holiness requires sustained and vigorous effort. It allows for no indolence, no lethargy, no halfhearted commitment, and no laissez faire attitude toward even the smallest sins. In short, it demands the highest priority in the life of a Christian, because to be holy is to be like Christ — God's goal for every Christian.