Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
There are so many times in my life when I wish I had the power to destroy anyone who would threaten or seek to humiliate the people I love. When you were a small, shy, awkward kid like me, and you saw and experienced some of the things I did and you can do nothing, you're going to gravitate to those comic books and fantasies where the nerd gets bit by a radioactive spider and can beat up the bad guys.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.
Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.
Fate does not always seek our consent.
He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
Emeth speaking of Aslan, "Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek. . . And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog
We have been engaging the Government of Swaziland for some time on this issue of the democratization of Swaziland. In particular, I had asked the Deputy President to engage the Government on this and, indeed, he has. We will continue to do this, because we do think that, as has been communicated to the Government of Swaziland, that Swaziland must go through this democratization process, a constitution-making process in which they have been engaged for some time, and really seek a national consensus about it.
In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.
Seek freedom from the conformity of styles
If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. "
Only those who seek shall find.
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him. If you seek Him, you are absent from Him. If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him. If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.