Quotes About Journey

Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into

A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

The question {WHY}, though, never goes away-- not for me, not for anybody. We keep groping toward light while living in darkness.

But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.

The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars. GEORGE MARSHALL

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a drive toward [loving the One] who rings our heart like a bell. —ABRAHAM HESCHEL

For me, at least, guidance only becomes evident when I look backward, months and years later. Then the circuitous process falls into place and the hand of God seems clear. But at the moment of decision I feel mainly confusion and uncertainty. Indeed, almost all the guidance in my life has been subtle and indirect.

God already knows who we are; we are the ones who must find a way to come to terms with our true selves.

God does some of God's best work with people who are truly, seriously lost.

It makes a huge difference whether I treat a nonbeliever as someone who is wrong rather than as someone who is on the way but lost.

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

I told you, I don't want you riding with me. Which is why I waited, Frieze explained patiently. To see what direction you were going in, so that I could make sure I took the opposite one. but of course, there may be wolves, or thieves, highwaymen or brigands, so I don't mind your company for the first hour or so.

Richard looks into my eyes and once again I know us for the children that we were, who had to make our own destiny in a world we could not understand.

Don't be afraid of the future, little Julia. Take your present life and live it.

There will be hundreds of sons making the same journey,' he says. 'All of us riding with broken hearts, all of us thinking of vengeance. This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.

Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.

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The moonlight on the water outside the chamber window throws the reflection of ripples onto the whitewashed ceiling of the room, so they look as if they are underwater, floating with Melusina in the fountain. But I know that they are both gone from me, and our water mother is singing them on their journey down the sweet river to the deep springs of home.

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Nothing in the world matter more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that.