Divine Pursuit Quotes

I pursue God on a daily basis, I'm not stepping into oblivion.

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

I got freed of all of my addictions January 16, 2009, but at that point I didn't do a full surrender to Jesus. I didn't give a full surrender until February 18, 2017, so there's quite a story in between where God was still chasing me.

They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.