“The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.” MenHumansSometimesSeemsCoursesHeavenLevelsOpinionPathProgressSourceEternalRiversDirectSeekingFollowingObstaclesNobleTendenciesSettlingBarriersBroadsCommerceAvoidingStatesmenSlopesBurstingConcessions Book:My Study Windows Source: My Study Windows
“Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.” FormArtistBehindsEternalInfiniteUnitySeekingEternal Beauty Book:The Outlook Source: The Outlook
“Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.” MenHumansIdeasSelfValuesSpiritualityGreaterDivineParticularSourceEternalUniversalUnitySeekingHuman LifeBranchesBroadsEquationsSectsApproximationValue Of Human Life Book:Bulletin Source: Bulletin
“Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.” IfsWantShouldHeartMaySoulSometimesRealityDesireCausesResultsTearsBenefitsEternalSeekingComplainingIntenseDistressSolemnApprehensionHardness Author:Hudson Taylor
“Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.” WritingEarthNamesWrittenEternalSeekingSandShorePerpetualSeashore Author:Dwight L. Moody
“Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.” SelfSpiritualCasesSeeingIdentityEternalSelf ImprovementEnlightenmentDirectFinalsSeekingImprovementRecognitionResolutionMistakenMistaken Identity Author:Gary Crowley
“Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.” MenSpiritAnswersDivineSourceEternalUniversalSeekingImmortal Author:Annie Besant
“For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19” InspirationalWellsGodChristianTimeCoursesReligiousChristianityLordPowerMysteryHolyFindingsEternalRoundsSeekingGhostDiligenceUnfoldingHoly GhostMormonismGod Works In Mysterious WaysMystery Of God Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.” PeopleWorldJoyTurnsJesusSinDoubtFireGraceEternalNewsSeekingTheologyRadicalGod LoveNo DoubtHolinessBentTormentGood NewsWrathGreat JoyFire Of God Author:Brian D. McLaren
“Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?” IfsPhilosophyFoundEternalPhilosophicalSeeking Author:Antonio Porchia