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4 “We are witnessing a massive flight from traditional religious institutions into spirituality, a spiritual awakening unprecedented in modern times.” ~ Psychology Today

5 “The will to meaning is really a specific need not reducible to other needs, and is in greater or smaller degree present in all human beings.” ~ Victor Frankl, The Unheard Cry For Meaning

6 “You know life… it’s rather like opening a tin of sardines. We are all looking for the key.” ~ Alan Bennett

7 “The most important thing is to not stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein

8 “Most of life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.” ~ Aldous Huxley

9 “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Socrates

10 “Western culture has turned from seeking the end or purpose to seeking causes – from the Why to the How. Might this empty meaning from our human experience? Then how can we recapture and enrich our sense of purpose?” ~ Daniel J. Boorstin, Pulitzer Prize winner

11 “Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.” ~ Winston Churchill

12 “I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, and yet thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.” ~ Socrates, on a discussion he had with an arrogant man

13 “You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.” ~ Benjamin Jowett

14 “Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

15 “Why is this thus? And what is the reason of this thusness? ~ Artemus Ward

16 “The answer to the great question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is… Forty-two.” ~ The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

17 “Why do they call them tellers? They never tell you anything. They just ask questions. And why do they call it interest? It’s boring. And another thing – how come the Trust Department has all their pens chained to the table?” ~ Coach Ernie Pantusso, Cheers

18 “We have an incapacity for proving anything which no amount of dogmatism can overcome. We have an idea of truth which no amount of scepticism can overcome.” ~ Pascal, Mathematician & Philosopher

19 “I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.” ~ Carl Jung

20 “If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.” ~ Woody Allen

21 “The mechanics of discovery are neither logical nor intellectual. It’s a sudden illumination, almost a rapture. Later, to be sure, intelligence and analysis and experiment confirm (or invalidate) the intuition. But initially there is a great leap of the imagination.” ~ Albert Einstein

22 “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

23 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; everyone who seeks finds; and to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” ~ Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 7:7-8 & Luke 11:9-10 (NIVi)

24 “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.’” ~ Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NIV)

25 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” ~ Matthew 6:33 (NASB)

26 “seek” = zeteo …to seek knowledge

27 “And without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would approach him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” ~ Hebrews 11:6 (NRSV)

28 Sow a thought, reap an action; Sow an action, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny.

29 “I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me.” ~ Wisdom, Proverbs 8:17 (NASB)

30 “A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it.” ~ Proverbs 14:6 (NLT)

31 “No one is good – not even one. No one has real understanding; no one is seeking God. All have turned away from God; all have gone wrong.” ~ Romans 3:10-12 (NLT)

32 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me makes them want to come.” ~ John 6:44 (CEV)

33 “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” ~ Luke 19:10 (NASB)

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