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• I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Beautiful, Hate

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.205, Beacon Press

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• I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Journey, Cherish Every Moment

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Community, And Love

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• The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.

  Wayne Grudem

  Teaching, Mean, Way

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.99, Harper Collins

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• Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Suffering, Busy

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• Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.

  Jaeson Ma

  Prayer, Heart, Waiting

  Jaeson Ma (2007). “The Blueprint: A Revolutionary Plan to Plant Missional Communities on Campus”, p.77, Gospel Light Publications

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• Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

  Oswald Chambers

  Satisfaction, Our Lives

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.511, Discovery House

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• I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

  James Allen

  Yoga, Self, Meditation

  James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Silence, Vision, Trying

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek the joy of your presence. We are your people, walking in darkness, yet seeking the light. To you we say, 'Come Lord Jesus!'

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Heart, Light

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• Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

  Willa Cather

  Different, Findings

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.

  Bill W.

  Simplicity, Enlightenment, Asking

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• All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Happiness, Appreciation, Quests

  "The City and the Stars". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, June 1956.

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• Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

  Alvin Adams

  Appreciate, Rumor, Matter

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• I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

  A. R. Ammons

  Analogies, Firsts, Walks

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.

  Darren Rowse

  Funny, Thoughtful, Eggs

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• We are not seeking to impose a recall.

  Joel Klein

  Recalls

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• The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Issues, Voters, Messages

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• States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Iraq, Mass Destruction

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Men, Mad

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• Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

  William Merritt Chase

  Life, Four, Aging

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• God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Ability, Illiterate

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.123, 1895.

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• Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

  John of Salisbury

  Inquiry, Hardship, Fruit

  John of Salisbury (2009). “The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium”, p.104, Paul Dry Books

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• Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Different, Birth Control

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