Quotes about Search

They found themselves involved willy-nilly in a futile but urgent search for the truth.

We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that cannot be explained by what is already known, then another planet is searched for which would explain their behavior. This, he says, is actually how the more distant planets were discovered. We look, then, for something that would explain what is not inexplicable from what we already see.

Nearly all that we call human history … [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

They hadn't found anything, for what could they have found? But order had been disturbed, peace destroyed.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

As it happens, the differences are clear between the major answers to the search for purpose in life, and they lead in entirely different directions.

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God—which is another way of saying that our seeking will always fall short unless God's grace initiates the search and unless God's call draws us to him and completes the search.

My misgivings arise from the fact that I search within to find how He will do what He says. My doubts spring from the depths of my own inferiority.

Do not look for God to come in a particular way, but do look for Him.