Quotes About Journey

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.

you can't always choose the path that you walk in life, but you can always choose the manner in which you walk it.

This book will remind you that you can't always choose the path that you walk in life, but you can always choose the manner in which you walk it.

You have lost nothing that matters. You have everything you need. Everything before leads up to now and now leads to what shall be.

transformation is a process, not an event

When you decide that you are going to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, sometime during your seemingly infinite journey the weathervane will just change direction and the new winds of positive change will blow at your back instead of into your face and things will just get easier and you will start to see progress right out of the blue. When that day happens you will know that it is just a matter of time. And time is what I have.

It is not possible to pursue reconciliation except through people who risk the journey to relate across the social divides. In this way they help make present the reconciling love of God. In other words, through people who reach across the lines of hostility, a new relationship between enemies becomes possible.

We commit ourselves to the journey toward reconciliation because we believe it is right-even when we are not sure, as John Paul says, how it will progress or end. We believe that walking down the path to peace offers a way better than violence and an instrument more powerful than force to conduct the affairs of humankind. We pray that others will join us. -Harold

True atonement and holiness place us on the journey to make real the reconciling love of God in our lives and to heal our broken communities across the globe. Our mission is to walk the path by which all things come together.

We will find God present throughout the journey toward reconciliation in the depths of fear, in the hopelessness of dark nights, in the tears of reconnection.

Reconciliation is understood as both a place we are trying to reach and the journey that we take up with each other.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot For taste of your elegant pride I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe But at least I'm enjoying the ride

Let your life proceed by its own design.

I may be going to hell in a bucket Babe, at least I'm enjoying the ride.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

Life is too precious to squander on trivial things. Grant us, Lord, the unswerving resolve to pray and live with David Brainerd's urgency: "Oh, that I might never loiter on my heavenly journey!

Psalms 1, 42, 73, 90, and 107.

That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

As Julian of Norwich put it, "And thus I saw God, and sought God. I had God, and at the same time I wanted God. And this is, and should be, what we are all working towards."1

Because even before I got there, New York had become a symbol of my liberated self, and I knew that it was in a kind of turbulence that that self must attempt to find itself.

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.