Top 1200 Seeking Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.
I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.
The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.
One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serve as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel.
What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
We need to protect immigrants who come here seeking a better life, rather than turning our backs on refugees and closing our borders and our hearts to others.
Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
A woman who'd lost her first son
consoled us with an angel gone ahead
to pray for our family--
gone into that sky
seeking oxygen,
gone into autopsy
I love you," I whisper. "And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will.
I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.
I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.
People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.
All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.
I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.
During the formulation of policies, we encourage discussion and listen. We should canvass opinions from all sectors of society - especially relevant stakeholders, those who work on the front line, and the youth - with a view to seeking consensus in society.
We are all seeking to live up to normative standards that we recognize, even if we don't all recognize the same standards. This is something basic that we have in common despite our differences.
That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.
It is important that parents pour out their love self-sacrificially for their children, which includes practicing what they preach, i.e. living in the love of Christ and seeking to emulate His example in their daily lives.
Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.
You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.
Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values.
Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.
Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.
For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.
Depression and anxiety affect a huge number of us. It's so important that the barriers that keep us from talking, seeking out help, and finding a way to cope when things feel desperate are removed.
Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.
Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.
Boredom is desire seeking desire.
I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one.
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny.
People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic." "Sure you were," Jason said. "You're just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.
Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.
