Seekers Quotes - Page 3

• Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They'll get jobs and start paying taxes too. They will see Australia as a nation with a sense of care and concern. That's so important for a cohesive society. It helps build a sense of belonging. And in terms of common decency, it's what should be happening... For God's sake, this is Australia, people should be treated with decency and humanity.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Jobs, Common Decency, Australia

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• Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave their mark on. Always on tiptoe, anticipating discovery. Such people find change as necessary as the air they breathe.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Change, Air, Discovery

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• Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.

  Franz Bardon

  Spiritual, Pain, Light

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• But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

  Tony Abbott

  Numbers, Australia, Asylum Seekers

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.

  Fred Bear

  Teenage, Soul, Thrill

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• Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

  Billy Graham

  New York, Cities, Thank God

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• What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agile—more responsive to the Holy Spirit—when it exists in these many forms? And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Appreciate, Honor

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• It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

  Ben Zobrist

  Cards, Want, Initiative

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

  Voltaire

  Funny Friendship, Real, Self

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• My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can do to change the molecules and uplift people. They feel something when we play. I can't take authorship for that. I can take that I'm in service.

  Charles Lloyd

  Uplifting, Play, People

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• The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Views, Discipline

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• We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Believe, Heaven, Saint

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• The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Men, Christ, Modern

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

  Howard Raiffa

  Play, Should Have, Risk

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.

  Kat Duff

  Practice, Cocoons, Isolation

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• Preach My Gospel missionaries act in faith and are guided by the Spirit to help investigators learn truth. Please always remember Him, be worthy to represent Him, treasure up His word, allow the Holy Ghost to witness all truth, and observe, listen, and discern as you testify of Jesus Christ to honest seekers of truth.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Treasure, Spirit

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• The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Phyllis McGinley (1968). “Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Opponents, Statements

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.330, Rajpal & Sons

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• When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

  Aberjhani

  Discipline, Ordinary, Levels

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.68, Lulu.com

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• Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.

  Charles Bates

  Philosophy, Exercise, Realization

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• Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

  Jane Smiley

  Avid, Names, Poetry

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.97, Anchor

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• I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Office, Politician

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.

  Jack White

  Art, Moving, Awards

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• Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Silence, Speech

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 18, 2012

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