Seeks Quotes
753 quotes by 577 authors
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The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.
— William O. Douglas
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A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no…
— Learned Hand
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Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to…
— C. J. Mahaney
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A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives…
— Mark Dever
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Manifestation is an act of trust. It is the soul pouring itself out into its world, like a fisherman casting a net to gather in…
— David Spangler
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The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us;…
— Phil Cousineau
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant…
— George Soros
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Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having…
— Meher Baba
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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…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
— James A. Michener
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The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind…
— John Ortberg
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The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks…
— Claude Monet
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Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
— Meister Eckhart
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All that is literature seeks to communicate power
— Thomas de Quincey
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History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period…
— Edward Hallett Carr
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The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and…
— Patricia Hill Collins
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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