Quotes About Journey

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own I had just grown up with it.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Jesus, allow me to grieve the sinfulness of sin—the sinfulness of my sins. Now that I'm no longer guilty or condemned, let me fearlessly see my sins, ruthlessly hate my sins, and relentlessly repent of my sins. Increase my love for holiness and decrease my self-contempt. Only the gospel can bring me such freedom. Only by seeing more of you, Jesus, will I delight in this journey.

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. (Prov. 16:9 NIV)

Paradise was not far away when I died

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Over the waves, with the wind behind her and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird until her curved prow had covered the distance...

The land of the living, sister, Is neither here nor there. We enter it and we leave it. The dead in the land of the dead Are the ones you'll be with longest.

Useless to think you'll park and capture it More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there, A hurry through which known and strange things pass As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways And catch the heart off guard and blow it open. "Postscript

But death is not easily escaped from by anyone: all of us with souls, earth-dwellers and children of men, must make our way to a destination already ordained where the body, after the banqueting, sleeps on its deathbed.

There was no one else like him alive. In his day, he was the mightiest man on earth, high-born and powerful. He ordered a boat that would ply the waves. He announced his plan: to sail the swan's road and search out that king, the famous prince who needed defenders.

All I know is a door into the dark

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

Time is chasing after all of us.

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

Take your time. There's no rush to be good or renowned.

Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.