Quotes about Seeking

We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. His inscrutable love seeks our awakening. True, since this awakening implies a kind of death to our exterior self, we will dread His coming in proportion as we are identified with this exterior self and attached to it.

No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.

The only One Who can teach me to find God is God, Himself, Alone.

look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless he has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace, yet if we wait for grace to move us, before beginning to seek Him will probably never begin.

When I was little, I asked my mom to help me memorize Matthew 7:7: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Most churchless people aren't looking for a church. They're seeking an encounter with God. And even if they're not seeking him directly, the vast majority are seeking to experience the essence of who he is: love.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time.

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

Second, the biblical principle of "ask, seek, and knock" is prudent advice for gaining a higher level of access.