Quotes About Journey

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

You might as well go one place as another, he said. That's all I know.

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.

With grown people, a road led either to heaven or hell, but with children there were always stops along the way where their attention could be turned with a trifle.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ.

If they here, they somewhere.

I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world.

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car. The train was racing through tree tops that fell away at intervals and showed the sun standing, very red, on the edge of the farthest woods. Nearer, the plowed fields curved and faded and the few hogs nosing in the furrows looked like large spotted stones. Mrs.

highway after the boy.

if you know who you are, you can go anywhere.

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ. Before he had thought it had been a doctor named Sladewall ....

FLANNERY O'CONNOR Wise Blood

Eastrod filled his head and then went out beyond and filled the space that stretched from the train across the empty darkening fields.

The grandmother wrote this down because she thought it would be interesting to say how many miles they had been when they got back. It took them twenty minutes to reach the outskirts of the city.

trips made him nervous.

The body, lady, is like a house: it don't go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always...

My life is way bigger than boxing or acting or being rich or being famous or endorsements.

My restaurant is an expression of myself - my fantasies. Where I've been, and where I want to be. I think of my cooking as very emotional.

Every man's got to find themselves, and I found myself in bloody Western Australia, of all places - there was as far away as I could.

I never consciously thought about going all the way through the 'Gonzaga farm system,' but that's the way it happened.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.