Quotes about Knocking

I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

That is not the way of God. It is asking, it is seeking, it is knocking.

Why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.

Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. (Luke 11:5—10 NLT)

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.