I think that was Kierkegaard’s point in #2 above.
That is more than reminiscent of Hebrews 11:6…
…may be what it takes for some to know they need him and to want him?
The content and comfortable privileged in this life likely don’t know they need him so they are not looking for him, let alone are wanting him. (Having a worldview that precludes the existence of God or his providential interventions doesn’t help. 
) An example of someone in extremis knowing they needed help, wanting and looking for God is – if the mods will please bear with me, because I’ve scoured the thread and even done a Google site search to see if she and Neal show up on the same page, and they don’t, is Maggie. She won five different lotteries in a day in the same order she bought the tickets, so to speak. Something was rigged!
Another example is at the end of Tim Keller’s book, The Reason for God:
During a dark time in her life, a woman in my congregation complained that she had prayed over and over, “God, help me find you,” but had gotten nowhere. A Christian friend suggested to her that she might change her prayer to, “God, come and find me. After all, you are the Good Shepherd who goes looking for the lost sheep.” She concluded when she was recounting this to me, “The only reason I can tell you this story is – he did.”