Quotes about Search
They found themselves involved willy-nilly in a futile but urgent search for the truth.
- John Updike
We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.
- Wayne Dyer
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord.
- Proverbs 8:35
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that cannot be explained by what is already known, then another planet is searched for which would explain their behavior. This, he says, is actually how the more distant planets were discovered. We look, then, for something that would explain what is not inexplicable from what we already see.
- NT Wright
Nearly all that we call human history … [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
- Nancy Pearcey
They hadn't found anything, for what could they have found? But order had been disturbed, peace destroyed.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
- Oprah Winfrey
As it happens, the differences are clear between the major answers to the search for purpose in life, and they lead in entirely different directions.
- Os Guinness
We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God—which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God's grace initiates the search and unless God's call draws us to him and completes the search.
- Os Guinness
My misgivings arise from the fact that I search within to find how He will do what He says. My doubts spring from the depths of my own inferiority.
- Oswald Chambers
Do not look for God to come in a particular way, but do look for Him.
- Oswald Chambers