Quotes about Finding

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

While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.

Provost John Mark Reynolds, for a position as professor and scholar in residence that gave me time to write Finding Truth.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded it and set sail.

and when they found Him, they said, “Everyone is looking for You!”

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

Many people in the world are trying to find God, and what we show them is much more important than what we tell them. It is, of course, important that we verbally share the gospel, but to do so and negate what we have said with our own behavior is worse than to say nothing.

So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.

We are like a restless sea, finding a little peace here and a little pleasure there, but nothing permanent and satisfying. So the search continues!

God should be sought, but we cannot find God. We can only be found by him.

Books that speak like God speak with too much authority to entertain us. Those that speak like good men hold us by their human charm; we grow by finding ourselves in them.