Quotes about Search
When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
— Anonymous
Search all you will for retribution or meaning to your life, but until you find God, you live in vain.
— Francine Rivers
There're a lot of things you don't understand. Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it
— Madeleine L'Engle
Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own?
— John Calvin
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
— John Donne
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
— Virginia Woolf
Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
— Jimmy Carter
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
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
With Late Night Show I can begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert.I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison.
— Stephen Colbert
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
— Anonymous
God can most easily be lost by being thought found.
— Fr. Richard Rohr