Quotes about Seek
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.
— Ezekiel 34:11
The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.
— Ezra 6:21
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
— Malachi 2:7
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
— William Barclay
If . . . My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
— Chris Fabry
Until a humility that rests in nothing less than the end and death of self, and which gives up all the honor of men as Jesus did to seek the honor that comes from God alone (which absolutely makes and counts itself nothing) that God may be all, that the Lord alone may be exalted—until such a humility is what we seek in Christ above our chief joy, and welcome at any price, there is very little hope of a faith that will conquer the world.
— Andrew Murray
To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.
— Paul Washer
May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.
— Psalm 71:13
And one more thing: I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Let us seek the sprinkling of the Spirit and the inward washing which Peter (1 Peter 1:2) calls "sprinkling with Christ's blood," by which all of us who hear and believe the Gospel of Christ are cleansed.
— Martin Luther
I would rather go through this valley to find the honor that true wise men seek than choose those things that this man and his worldly friends think most worthy of our affections.
— John Bunyan
His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
— Job 20:10