Quotes About Journey

La Belleza, es, pues, el camino del hombre sensible hacia el espíritu...

La esperanza, con todo lo engañosa que es, al menos sirve para conducirnos al final de la vida por un camino agradable.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man's city?(100)

If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find Him.

What you fear is an indication of what you seek.

SIT FINIS LIBRI, NON FINIS QUAERENDI

We live as spiritual men when we live as men seeking God.

Mere sitting at home and meditating on the divine presence is not enough for our time. We have to come to the end of a long journey and see that the stranger we meet there is no other than ourselves—which is the same as saying that we find Christ in him. For if the Lord is risen, as He said, He is actually or potentially alive in every man.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

And when I thought there was no God and no love and no mercy, you were leading me all the while into the midst of His love and His mercy and taking me, without my knowing anything about it, to the house that would hide me in the secret of His Face.

Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis but first of all by living.