Quotes about Seeking

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again — I dwell among the people."

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

I verily judge, we know not how much may be had in this life: there is yet something beyond all we see, that seeking would light upon.

Dry wells send us to the fountain.

They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.