Quotes about Search
We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be relaxed, to expose ourselves to someone else, and to give unconditionally. It might be very small and hidden, but if this corner exists, it calls for a search through the complexities of our human relationships in order to find it.
— Henri Nouwen
Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.
— Henri Nouwen
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
— Stephen Hawking
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
— St. Augustine
To really find God is to search for him not only in ourselves, not only in our loved ones, not only in our neighbors, not only in the strangers that we encounter, but ultimately in our enemies as well.
— Arianna Huffington
Payattention. As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that. And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too.
— Frederick Buechner
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
— Myles Munroe
She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.
— Margaret Atwood
One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are.
— Anne Lamott
The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise
— Anne Lamott
For somebody to be on a search means he or she is involved with these subversive topics, reading and comparing notes with allies, asking questions, daydreaming, brooding. Even though you have homework to do.
— Anne Lamott
To search for God is to have found God is deeply profound, because the belief we hold in the existence of another world opens space within us, and around us, which creates a more radiant reality.
— Anne Lamott