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121 " Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says " Yes" in spite of the anxiety of " No." Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality "

122 " Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings. "

123 " But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it." , 3:AM Magazine, June 2003] "

124 " When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking. "

― Hélène Cixous , The Laugh of the Medusa

125 " Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. "

― Richard Flanagan

126 " There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place of your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write? Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write? Dig deep into yourself for a true answer. And if it should ring its assent, if you can confidently meet this serious question with a simple, “I must,” then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge. "

― Rainer Maria Rilke , Letters to a Young Poet

127 " If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the poet, that inspiration takes the place of reflection and as for unity, I think there is no unity so perfect as that which results from a heart filled with a single idea...The nature of genius is related to that of instinct; it's operation is both simple and marvelous. "

― Charlotte Brontë

128 " The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression. "

― Henry Adams , La educación de Henry Adams

129 " Set your soul in search of th he truth. "

― Lailah Gifty Akita

130 " Through many tributions, we begin to search for the truth. "

― Lailah Gifty Akita

131 " There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but the truth, and this created a problem, because the gods did not want this wisdom discovered right away. One of the gods suggested the top of the highest mountain, another the farthest star, a third spoke up for the dark side of the moon, and another for the bottom of the deepest ocean. Finally, they decide to place truth inside the human heart. In that way, we would search for it all over the universe, with the secret within us all the time. "

132 " The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for oneness with Jesus. The search for Jesus is bigger, deeper and agonizing. "

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133 " When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost. "

― Wes Moore

134 " When I encountered these haunting words from Franz Kafka, I realized exactly why this light sermon about the search for God had struck such a nerve: " Everyday life is the greatest detective story ever written. Every second, without noticing, we pass by thousands of corpses and crimes. That's the routine of our lives. "

135 " If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd? "

― Erich von Däniken , Chariots of The Gods

136 " As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above, my ears straining to catch the crack of a distant branch that betrays an orangutan moving in the treetops, I think about how we humans search for God. The tropical rain forest is the most complex thing an ordinary human can experience on this planet. A walk in the rain forest is a walk into the mind of God. "

― Biruté M.F. Galdikas , Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo

137 " A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them. "

― Frank O'Connor

138 " If there is knowledge we shall seek, we must search for the excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus. "

139 " Explore. Search. Seek. "

― Lailah Gifty Akita

140 " Search. Search. "