Quotes About Journey

John Eldredge

You are the son of a kind, strong, and engaged Father, a Father wise enough to guide you in the Way, generous enough to provide for your journey. His first act of provision happened before you were even born, when he rescued you through the life, death, and resurrection of our elder brother, Jesus of Nazareth. Then he called you to himself—perhaps is calling you even now—to come home to him through faith in Christ.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

You can find that life—if you are willing to embark on a great adventure.

What sort of tale have I fallen into? is a question that would help us all a great deal if we wondered it for ourselves.

we were made to be a part of a great adventure. An adventure that is shared. We do not want the adventure merely for adventure's sake but for what it requires of us for others. We don't want to be alone in it; we want to be in it with others.

Frodo could not be a hero unless he was born into a story with many chapters already played out before his own. His moment derives its weight and urgency from the moments that have come before.

The wilderness trial of Christ is, at its core, a test of his identity. "If you are who you think you are . . ." If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.

The father is to speak into his son's heart deep affirmation. Yes, you do. You have what it takes. He needs a hundred experiences that will help him get there, and he is wounded and emasculated when he is kept from those experiences, or left on his own to interpret them, or when no one is there to help him in his journey toward initiation.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

Somehow, somewhere between our youth and yesterday, efficiency has taken the place of adventure.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

We are all tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.

What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound?"— the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange lands — is likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the universe of which he is himself so tiny yet so wondrous a part.

It came to me…that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

You use your life.

It was like a journey into space. I was standing on Mars, knee-deep in thyme, under a sky that seemed never to have known dust or cloud.

The sun moved, came on me, made me erotic. Sometimes to return is a vulgarity. The profoundest distances are never geographical.

Dac? pe drumul pe care îl urmezi de mult? vreme, o maÈ™in? se opreÈ™te s? te ia, asta nu poate schimba decât ora sosirii, nu poate explica È™i motivul pentru care ai apucat-o în direcÈ›ia aceea.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.