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He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
- Thomas a Kempis
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.
- AW Tozer
What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.
- Steven Curtis Chapman
God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
- Khalil Gibran
He who truly seeks God has found Him.
- John Wooden
God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
- Victor Hugo
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.
- Edith Stein
Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
- St. Jerome
God has made the desire of our own happiness so necessary to the soul of man, that it cannot be separated from our desire to please him. Therefore, both in respect to God, and to our own happiness, "we must believe that he is the everlasting Rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
- Richard Baxter
It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it, long for it, choose it, and personally find it again--but now on a new level.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- St. Augustine