Quotes about Pursuit

praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.

But not only does the pursuit of joy in God give strength to endure; it is the key to breaking the power of sin on our way to heaven.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.

The wisdom of God's providence in bringing us from conversion to glory engages our wholehearted pursuit of holiness but reserves the decisive power for God himself. We act the miracle. God causes it.

Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.

Finally I asked my friend Judy, who spent many years as a student of Sufism and who embodies fana —the self-annihilating love of God—as well as anyone I know. When I asked her to define spirituality for me, she thought for a moment and said, 'Spirituality is the active pursuit of the God you didn't make up.' I loved that. I also did not know what it meant.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

The world's way of pursuing riches is grasping and hoarding. You attain My riches by letting go and giving.

My! we couldn't get him out, Tom. And besides, 'twouldn't do any good; they'd ketch him again. Yes—so they would. But I hate to hear 'em abuse him so like the dickens when he never done—that. I do too, Tom. Lord, I hear 'em say he's the

We must condemn those who are perpetuating the violence, and not the individuals who engage in the pursuit of their constitutional rights.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.