Quotes About Pursuit

Later I will systemize my impossible subject, but for the moment I want to enjoy a tentative movement between its different chambers. I am not certain which are important and which are extraneous. Nor am I certain whether this topic is one that I have the strength to pursue.

what if they had a damn good reason for chasing him, a motivation that ran deeper than "Hey, an alien, catch it!

formal political life is a theater of nihilism: the political sphere is where nihilism is played out in raw form and also a site for overcoming or pushing back against nihilism through pursuit of worldly causes. In our time, both potentials are there, and routinely collide.

Why would anyone run unless he was being chased?

Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.

I knew the Spring was come. I knew it even Better than all by this, that through my chase In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven I seem'd to see and follow still your face. Your face my quarry was. For it I rode, My horse a thing of wings, myself a god.

All human philosophy is riddled with the nightmare of searching in vain.

If all you seek from something is pleasure, you'll never find it. All you will feel is noia [existential boredom], often disgust. To feel pleasure in any act or activity, you have to pursue some end other than pleasure.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be means to that end.

Pursuing godliness without also pursuing biblical truth is a sure-fire way to remain in spiritual infancy (Eph. 4:14). The

Rousseau's search might prove fruitless. Perhaps

Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain to it.

I used to think all that game playing was par for the course and even kind of exciting. It just felt logical to pursue a boy the same way I applied to college—by expending exorbitant time and energy showing what a great catch I am and what a perfect match we'd be, so that after a lengthy waiting period I might get accepted. But now the idea of reliving any version of that charade seems like hell.

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

Since Jesus went through everything you're going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you'll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want. 1 Peter 4:1–2, THE MESSAGE

The question for each of us is one of housekeeping. Are there attitudes or actions we have allowed to take root in our life that are keeping us from the pursuit of holiness?

The danger can be that just as we have sought to control our environment, with both its advances and its increased pace, we may seek to control spirituality by making its pursuit or its simplicity the point, rather than its effectiveness in meeting human need.

Go after what is beneficial for you there and then, not what is good.

the picture, how many people are chasing the girl? 2. What is the girl carrying? 3. Does the girl have both her feet on the ground? 4. What are the man and woman holding? 5. Is the girl wearing socks? 6. Is the girl wearing polka-dotted shorts?

You cannot fulfill a purpose; it is like a guiding star on the horizon- forever pursued but never reached.

I'm coming for you Newt

To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life,

My move my throat my wildest loves, the eyes behind my eyes. Instead I left Him, though he followed me right to the end.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.