Quotes about Pursuit

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.

The irony of the empty soul is that while he is perpetually dissatisfied in so many areas, he is so easily satisfied in regard to the pursuit of God.

So the Spiritual Disciplines are those personal and interpersonal activities given by God in the Bible as the sufficient means believers in Jesus Christ are to use in the Spirit-filled, gospel-driven pursuit of godliness, that is, closeness to Christ and conformity to Christ.

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

Each moment spent searching is also a moment spent finding.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her — that he was leaving her behind.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.