Quotes about Seeking

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

The Bible never speaks of God's grace as simply making up our deficiencies--as if salvation consists in so much good works (even a variable amount) plus so much of God's grace. Rather the Bible speaks of "a God who justifies the wicked" (Romans 4:5) who is found by those who do not seek Him, who reveals Himself to those who do not ask for Him (see Romans 10:20).

It is more than just knowing facts about God. It is coming into a deeper personal relationship with Him as a result of seeking Him in the midst of our personal pain and discovering Him to be trustworthy.

If you are "seeking first" his kingdom where you are, then where you are is where he has positioned you.

Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.

God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will.

God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will. "The Bible says, 'Seek and you shall find.'9 It doesn't say everybody will find him; it doesn't say nobody will find him. Some will find. Who? Those who seek. Those whose hearts are set on finding him and who follow the clues.

There is within you a yearning for the divine that nothing else can satisfy.

The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

O my God, how does it happen in this poor old world that Thou art so great and yet nobody finds Thee, that Thou callest so loudly and nobody hears Thee, that Thou art so near and nobody feels Thee, that Thou givest Thyself to everybody and nobody knows Thy name? Men flee from Thee and say they cannot find Thee; they turn their backs and say they cannot see Thee; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear Thee. Hans Denk

Each moment spent searching is also a moment spent finding.