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Quotes About Pilgrimage

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.
~ Donald Cargill
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
~ Laurie R. King
No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.
~ Alex Shoumatoff
The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
~ Georg Hermes
If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.
~ Cush Jumbo
I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.
~ Ross Douthat
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
~ Abraham Cowley
Saudi authorities must launch a campaign about the safety of female pilgrims and the determination of the authorities to ensure every woman's safety.
~ Mona Eltahawy
A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose.
~ Peace Pilgrim
The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the 'mystery of iniquity' in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth.
~ Ralph Martin
What we call endurance sport today, we've been doing for centuries with pilgrimages, walking across the earth towards some goal, which is not all-important, because it's the journey that matters.
~ Milind Soman
As Nancy Frey writes of the long-distance pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, 'When pilgrims begin to walk several things usually begin to happen to their perceptions of the world which continue over the course of the journey: they develop a changing sense of time, a heightening of the senses, and a new awareness of their bodies and the landscape....A young German man expressed it this way: 'In the experience of walking, each step is a thought. You can't escape yourself.
~ Rebecca Solnit
for pilgrims, walking is work.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The pilgrimage is one of the basic modes of walking, walking in search of something intangible
~ Rebecca Solnit
Lyon Redmond was either a man on a pilgrimage in search of salvation, or a man out to burn on the pyre of his own love for a woman. Regardless, he still suffered.
~ Julie Anne Long
felsefe; yolda olmak demektir.
~ Karl Jaspers
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.
~ George Herbert
To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.
~ Fanny Fern
The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.
~ Percy Grainger
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
While praying, always duck and cover. The authentic spiritual pilgrimage may require that you walk all the way up a holy mountain, only to haul your ass right back down and still not have a clue where you were, are, or will be.
~ William B. Miller
Benares emerged as a major centre of finance and commerce as well as a unique centre of religion, education and pilgrimage. In Bengal, Nadia was the centre of Sanskrit learning and a sophisticated centre for regional architectural and Hindustani musical excellence.
~ William Dalrymple
This shows what reason the people of God, wherever they live, have to pray for good magistrates, especially kings and princes. Regna sunt hospitia ecclesiæ—as the inn is to the traveller, so kingdoms are to the church in its pilgrimage here on earth. As
~ William Gurnall
the trail, at infrequent posts, the weary Saints would
~ David Ebershoff