Quotes about Searching

Believing there is no God does not make the thirst go away.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

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.

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

“Where is He?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.

Is God our friend, our provider, our protector, our father—or is God the kind of judge who may in the end declare that we deserve to spend forever separated from our Father? Is God like the characters in a story Jesus would tell, old ladies who keep searching for the lost coin until they find it, shepherds who don't rest until that one sheep is back in the fold, fathers who rush out to greet and embrace their returning son, or, in the end, will God give up?

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

“Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.