Seeking Quotes - Page 24

• War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

  John Dos Passos

  Peace, Cancer, Lying

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.

  Ernest Holmes

  Creativity, Expression, Giving

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.8, Penguin

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• Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord.

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Determined, Lord

  Jim Cymbala (2008). “Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire”, p.146, Zondervan

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• Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Past, Night

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• I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Training, Ordinary

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• More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Men, White Man

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Divorce, Giving

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.213, NavPress

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• The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Responsibility, Past, Opportunity

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• A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Murder Mysteries, Intuition, Littles

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• Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

  Peter Block

  Healing, Profound, Answers

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.10, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract

  Wayne Dyer

  Needs, Want

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• Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?

  Bill Hicks

  Employment, Mexico, Way

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• Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Titles, Belief, Outdated

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• Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1968). “The Pursuit of God”, p.89, Fig

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• We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

  Waldo Frank

  America, Quality

  Waldo David Frank (1919). “Our America”

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• Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Character, Men, Office

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• Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Pyramids, Hatred

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• The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Strange, Week

  "Pulp" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2001.

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• In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Opportunity, Space, Silence

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• We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.

  H. Emilie Cady

  Rewards, Creeds, Search For Truth

  H. Emilie Cady (2016). “LESSONS IN TRUTH - A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Christianity: How to Enhance Your Confidence and Your Inner Power & How to Improve Your Spiritual Development”, p.6, e-artnow

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• People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a common origin and that our differences in race, colour and creed are only superficial.

  Louis Leakey

  Past, Men, Race

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• The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.

  Brian Solis

  People, Answers, Lines

  Brian Solis (2010). “Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Character, Europe, Challenges

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

  Richard Halliburton

  Vagabonds, World, Life Is

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• Seldom can the heart be lonely,
  If it seek a lonelier still;
  Self-forgetting, seeking only
  Emptier cups of love to fill.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Lonely, Heart, Self

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63

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