Quotes about Discovery

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Seek and you shall find" does not refer to anything else: long life, conquest of earthly enemies, freedom from pain, disease, death, betrayal, weakness, and so on. But it does refer to God and to that which God is: "God is agap?." That is why all who seek it find it. De Caussade says: "If you search for this kingdom where God alone rules, you can be quite sure you will find it" (p. 112).

Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

God has designed every component of his creation to display some aspect of his care, and each holds a unique fascination for the human observer. Thus, we can easily engage both young and older minds with some newly discovered feature or fact of nature. If we can make a connection between that discovery and one of God's attributes or a component of God's plan to redeem humanity, we will have provided a stronger motivation for people to seriously investigate the book of Scripture.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

In those moments, I'd known that something new was being formed in me, too, created so gently that I hadn't even realized it until that evening by the shore.

Maybe grace was all around me, bubbling through, passing under my feet, and I'd never seen it because I'd never tried to see.

There are no bad men. Just the lost looking to be found, sister.

chance on foreign territory.

The trick," she says, "is to find a new dream for the next part of your life. Then empty nest becomes a beginning, not an ending.