Quotes about Pursuit

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

dare avouch46 to all that know God, that the saints know not the length and largeness of the sweet earnest,47 and of the sweet green sheaves before the harvest, that might be had on this side of the water, if we should take more pains: and that we all go to heaven with less earnest and lighter purses of the hoped for sum than otherwise we might do, if we took more pains to win further in upon Christ in this pilgrimage of our absence from Him.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, that would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

We should waken to the truth that it is a treacherous sin not to pursue our fullest satisfaction in God.

praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.

But not only does the pursuit of joy in God give strength to endure; it is the key to breaking the power of sin on our way to heaven.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.

The wisdom of God's providence in bringing us from conversion to glory engages our wholehearted pursuit of holiness but reserves the decisive power for God himself. We act the miracle. God causes it.

Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.