Best We Seek Thoughts
316 We Seek quotes by 246 unique authors
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Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed…
— Brent L. Top
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We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and…
— Maria Montessori
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What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.
— Robert Breault
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If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.
— Meister Eckhart
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I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or…
— Ridley Pearson
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Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
— Lee Strobel
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In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate…
— Frederick Lenz
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If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.
— Anthony D. Williams
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The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel…
— Susan L. Taylor
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The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
— Hugh Mackay
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These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What -…
— Steven Erikson
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Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to…
— Clive Hamilton
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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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In moments of pain, we seek revenge.
— Ami Ayalon
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Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we…
— Terry Taylor
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They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages:…
— Horace
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but…
— William Cowper
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A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely…
— Mary C. Ames
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We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.
— Jim Clemmer
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The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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