Quotes About Journey

Faith often means taking a voluntary step from the known into the unknown in response to God's leading.

The water was only parted once they had acted in faith and followed God. They could not count on any plans, because God gave them none. He only gave them himself. God was the plan.

God is working, always working, to form us and conform us and transform us into the image of Christ. God is intent upon this forming, conforming, transforming process. And God invites us to participate in this process by means of interactive relationship.

Prayer catapults us onto the frontier of the spiritual life.

We must always remember that the path does not produce the change; it only places us where the change can occur. This is the path of disciplined grace. There

As Thomas Merton says, "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!"2 Psalm

How, then, do we step into the richness and power of this life?

What escapes you, never leaves you. Everything is a journey of trust. You have to have the kind of faith the flame has for the candle, that the bird has for its wings. Otherwise, our words have no destinations. Otherwise, our words are snakes that swallow our souls. —Richard Jackson, from "Isaac's Consent," Out of Place: Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2014)

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

And this morning, / above us, invisible stars the daylight hides begin to map for us, / secretly, new paths our hearts had seemed to despair of,–those /vapor trails that linger longer than they are supposed to, the wake / of the boat that echoes perhaps endlessly, shore to shore,– if only / we can believe in them without ever seeing where they are. — Richard Jackson, from "Invisible Star Maps," Broken Horizons (Press 53, 2018)

When do you realize the selves you left behind have gone on without you, living the many lives you now begin to resemble?

I've come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I've spent everything I have to get here.

All these scars. The road map of my life. My armor.

Up ahead, Donut Universe shines like the Virgin Mary doing barrel rolls over Lourdes, so I head over.

Maybe these are a little farther down the road to Candy Land.

I take a long drag on the Malediction like maybe it'll start a tornado and carry me back home like Dorothy.

All great men begin as fools. It's one of life's little jokes.

So, this really is a crusade after all. And now I'm part of it. Hallelujah.

The 405 is one breakdown away from turning into the Donner Party.

Dream is destiny.

Erinnerungen sind der Reiseproviant auf dem Weg in die Zukunft.

It was the old tale retold, that to the life of every man there is a background

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

The stunted pines elude capture in a thousand sidetracked increments. The wind will never understand them. Like us it is forced to go on.