Seeking Quotes - Page 27

• If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.

  William Lane Craig

  Existence, Gods Will, Seeking God

  William Lane Craig, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2003). “God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

  Henry Ford

  Lying, Clouds, Feet

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• The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

  Franz Boas

  Passion, Alive, Sake

  "Race and Democratic Society". Book by Franz Boas. Introduction, 1945.

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• My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

  Daniel Nathans

  Opportunity, Years, Parent

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• Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Office, Gentleman

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Europe, Names, Democracy

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• Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Watches, Lord

  "The Root of the Righteous". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, p. 39, 1955.

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• Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mindfulness, States, Endless

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Pain, Real, Mistake

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• Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that.  So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Dollars, Want

  "Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon". "HBR IdeaCast" with Adi Ignatius, hbr.org.

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• "No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.

  Gavin de Becker

  Choices, Abuse, Trying

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Selfish, Sleep, Creative

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

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• The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Use, Resistance

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• The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

  Theophile Gautier

  Patience, Years, Meditation

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• If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Light, Goes On, Action

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Loss, Reality, Shining

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own spiritual convictions you will find that many seemingly insuperable barriers in your life will crumble and dissolve in the waters of meditation. Your devotion and love for God will commingle with the devotion and love of others. Divine bliss will radiate from you, helping all persons you meet.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Practice

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• Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Perception Of Beauty, Delight, Pleasure

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• A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Government, Justice, Decision

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• The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

  Paul Watzlawick

  Suicide, Doe, Conclusion

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• The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.

  Norbert Wiener

  Goal, Process, Type

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.163, Da Capo Press

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• I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

  Tony Abbott

  Successful, Thinking, Knowing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Real, Race, Mystery

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• So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jobs, Decision, Waiting

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