Quotes about Searching

“Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.

They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”

Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.

God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

There are no bad men. Just the lost looking to be found, sister.

Believing there is no God does not make the thirst go away.

Only by much searching and mining, are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. That he is the maker of his character, the molder of his life, and the builder of his destiny, he may unerringly prove, if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it"? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it — that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?

There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.