In Pursuit Quotes

In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind?

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.

Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

I just don't think it's healthy to only have one pursuit, even if it's a seemingly positive thing. You can do a positive thing to the nth degree, and it turns on you at some point. You become stuck.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more.

The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.

Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

Trust is a careless pursuit.

Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.

The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.