Quotes about Grasping

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

I try to approach every day with hands that are open, not grasping.

If we must "feel" God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.