Quotes about Seeking

How did I burn then, my God, how did I burn to re-mount from earthly things to Thee, nor knew I what Thou wouldest do with me? For with Thee is wisdom.

Behold my heart, O God, behold my heart, which Thou hadst pity upon in the bottom of the bottomless pit. Now, behold, let my heart tell Thee what it sought there, that I should be gratuitously evil, having no temptation to ill, but the ill itself. It was foul, and I loved it; I loved to perish, I loved mine own fault, not that for which I was faulty, but my fault itself. Foul soul, falling from Thy firmament to utter destruction; not seeking aught through the shame, but the shame itself!

How then do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.

What we are looking for is what is looking.

Tear your heart away from everything else; then seek God and you will surely find him.

Above all, the divine love is salvific: It seeks the lost, suffers with the afflicted, and redeems the fallen.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.