Quotes About Pilgrimage

Repeatedly during her trek from grotto to bungalow

Lourdes in Nevers,

Dear friends, you are like visitors and strangers in this world. —1 PETER 2:11 ICB

They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.

I made a fine tramp and a fair drover;

Christian's attempt to help remedy the perilous condition of these three sleeping pilgrims is met with indifference, indolence, and intolerance. Christian, troubled by the lack of spiritual concern in the religious world, does his best to bring about a change, but all his efforts are scorned and rebuffed. Lesson one for the new Christian-many a careless and indifferent traveler will not survive the pilgrimage. 6.

There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life. 3.

369} HOPE. I do believe, as you say, that fear tends much to men's good, and to make them right, at their beginning to go on pilgrimage.

The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls. The

Además, ¿no hemos de caminar ahora por fe?

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

People will never set their faces decidedly toward heaven and live like pilgrims until they really feel that they are in danger of hell. Let us all try to revive the old teaching about sin to our young children, our older children, and in our schools, colleges, and universities.

La gente nunca se propondrá decididamente ir en dirección al cielo y a vivir como peregrinos hasta que sientan que realmente corren peligro de ir al infierno.

People will never set their faces decidedly toward heaven and live like pilgrims until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

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The pilgrims continue to come. Only God knows what each one of us brings, and with what kind of heart. We come mystically to this cave. We know the mess we bring and the often distracted heart that brings it. But this is all we have--all we are. One stretches out his arms to receive.

Holistic spirituality is a pilgrimage of deepening responsiveness to God's control of our life and being.

ON THE NIGHT of November 23, Beneš began an eventful pilgrimage

Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,/And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan.... /These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown/Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.' I know you know what that means: you believe in God but I believe in 'Crass Casualty'—in chance, in luck. That's what I mean. You see? What good does it do to make whatever decision you're talking about? What good does courage do—when what happens next is up for grabs?

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.