The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be.
Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.
It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.
Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.
We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here.
The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.
I think we live our lives seeking the shortest route, the closest parking space - everything quick, cheap, fast. And it's not better. Two-thirds of the satisfaction of getting something is the process of getting it.
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
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.
Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world.
I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.
If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.
