Quotes about Search

LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. —PSALM 139:1—4

DO NOT SEARCH FOR SECURITY in the world you inhabit. You tend to make mental checklists of things you need to do in order to gain control of your life. If only you could check everything off your list,

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it sometimes.

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from the evidence? Might it not equally well determine that we draw the wrong conclusion? Or no conclusion at all?

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby wee come to search out the truth, and settle it effectually upon the heart.

One study calculated that people spend 3,680 hours in their lifetime looking for lost items, which works out to 150 twenty-four-hour days.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.