Quotes about Seeking

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

one cannot seek for what he knows, and it seems equally impossible for him to seek for what he does not know. For what a man knows he cannot seek, since he knows it; and what he does not know he cannot seek, since he does not even know for what to seek.

In the deepest sense you shall make yourself nothing, become nothing before God, learn to be silent. In this silence is the beginning, which is to seek first God's kingdom

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom."

When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

Why seek ye the living among the dead?

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.