Quotes about Quest
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP.
— Shane Claiborne
The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest--and uplifting by its own essence. Seeking God--and finding itself. Showing that there is no higher reach beyond its own form....
— Ayn Rand
The statue of a naked woman. If you understand the building, you understand what the figure must be. The human spirit. The heroic in man. The aspiration and the fulfillment, both. Uplifted in its quest - and uplifting by its own essence. Seeking God - and finding itself.
— Ayn Rand
Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.
— Marianne Williamson
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
— Etty Hillesum
The quest for the face of God has two central dimensions—the quest for His presence and the quest for His favor.
— Bill Johnson
That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.
— Max Lucado
We want certainty, but the only certainty is the lack thereof. That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot.
— Max Lucado
The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.
— Joseph Wirthlin
The hero wanders. The hero suffers. The hero returns.
— Steven Pressfield
He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.
— Evelyn Underhill