Seeking Quotes
Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.
The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.
I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
Love doesn't please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.
I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves, I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets. That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.
Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.
We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.
I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
In order to attract and maintain romantic and spiritual partnerships, you must be what it is that you're seeking. That is, you always need to put forth what you want to attract.
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!
The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.
What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.
When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.
My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
That the stars are adamant everyone understands— but I won’t give up seeking joy on each blue wave or peace below every gray stone.
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.