Quotes about Search

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

So He asked them again, “Whom are you seeking?” “Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered.

“Woman, why are you weeping?” they asked. “Because they have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I do not know where they have put Him.”

But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:

Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,

After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,

But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

Indeed, when he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently until he found me.

I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.