Quotes About Pilgrimage

Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

clock in a jeweller's window gave the time as twenty-three minutes to five. She knew, by the consequential scurry of its second-hand, that it was alive. It was surrounded by other clocks that made mad dead statements of divergent times as if, she thought, to set before her the stages of that day's fruitless pilgrimage.

The world is quite a perilous pilgrimage for those who sigh after eternity,

But before we come to that center, full of light, we must travel in the dark. Darkness is not the whole of the story-every pilgrimage has passages of loveliness and joy-but it is the part of the story most often left untold.

Is someone going about the High Kirk killing folk? That'll do the pilgrim trade no good.

We must set out, often without a destination, with only the instinct to search as a direction. Literature and religion are predicated on the notion of journey, movement—pilgrimage it's called in religion, plot in literature.

A lot of pilgrims run a needle with thread through their blisters. They pull the thread through until it hangs out both entry points and then cut it, leaving two to three inches of thread hanging out, which supposedly allows the blister to drain.

Spanish pilgrims travel on Camino de Santiago from monastery to monastery, collecting small medals to attach to their rosary as proof of their steps. I have stacks of Polaroids, each marking my own, that I sometimes spread out like tarots or baseball cards of an imagined celestial team.

It's not where we are going but just that we go p.275

The pilgrims and the lost often did look the same,

Wisdom is about the lifelong process of being formed into mature disciples, who wander well along the unscripted pilgrimage of faith, in tune to the all-surrounding thick presence of the Spirit of God in us and in the creation around us.

So how big an interest have you been taking in the Pilgrimage?' 'Big. That idiot Ethan really could trigger the end of the galaxy. I'd have to move.' 'How terrible.

Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.

A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”

Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.

Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.

When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

You can verify for yourself that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.