Quotes About Pilgrimage

To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere!

Fulk the Black, Count of Anjou and founder of the Angevin dynasty that later ruled England, came on pilgrimage after he had burned his wife alive in her wedding-dress having found her guilty of adultery with a swineherd.

Give me my scallop shell of quiet,My staff of faith to walk upon,My scrip of joy, immortal diet,My bottle of salvation,My gown of glory, hope's true gageAnd thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

Happy are the people whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. Psalm 84:5

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

Era la peregrinación de los martes, devota, insulsa, mentirosa. Venían a pedir favores. ¿Por qué esta manía de pedir y pedir? Yo no soy de aquí. Me avergüenzo de esta raza limosnera.

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

For centuries mankind has been on an incredible journey, taking him across every generation and through every conceivable experience in his search for God.

My home is in heaven. I'm just passing through this world.

Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship.

In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.

How much greater should be our longing for our eternal home! You and I aren't meant to live for only a few decades on this earth; we are destined for eternity. The Bible says this world is not our final home; we are "strangers and pilgrims on the earth" (Hebrews 11:13 NKJV). Our true home is heaven—and that is where God's path leads.

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered us not an excursion, but an execution.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

Nobody really knows what "creativity" is. Every year thousands of people take a pilgrimage to find out. This involves flying to Cannes, snorting cocaine, and having sex with smokers.

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

But the holy angels, towards whose society and assembly we sigh while in this our toilsome pilgrimage, as they already abide in their eternal home, so do they enjoy perfect facility of knowledge and felicity of rest. It is without difficulty that they help us; for their spiritual movements, pure and free, cost them no effort.

Porque lo esencial de la vida no es su reposo, sino su movilidad. Quién desea aproximarse a su esencia tiene que insistir en una externa peregrinación del espíritu, en una eterna inquietud del corazón cada paso de esa peregrinación es un acercamiento a uno mismo

Solo alguien como yo que ha permanecido dos décadas inquieto, en eterna peregrinación sabe toda la voluptuosidad que encierra «vivir en el aire» como dice Beethoven, amigo del Azar y del encuentro eterno.

A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires, we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.