It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please". . . . . . Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist. . . . . . she certainly did not envelop him in her love.
Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.
God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.
He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.
Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.
If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.
Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.
If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.