Quotes About Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage always involves both an exterior and interior journey. Any travel can be a pilgrimage, regardless of the destination or whether or not there even is a destination. The difference between a pilgrim and a tourist is the intention of attention and openness to God. This transforms a trip into a pilgrimage, and the result is that the self that sets out on pilgrimage will not be the same as the self that returns.

King spoke of how the Pilgrimage would be an appeal to the nation, and the Congress, to pass a civil rights bill that would give the Justice Department the power to file law suits against discriminatory registration and voting practices anywhere in the South.

Mr. Nath and I talked further about the pilgrimage. Examining his hand he said, 'I wonder what it will look like after I finish this pilgrimage.' What do you mean?' I asked. 'Do you expect this pilgrimage to change your hand?' It must,' he replied. 'This pilgrimage changes one's life. The change must be evident in the lines of one's hands.

Anyone in search of chocolate eventually makes the pilgrimage to Ladurée, the world-famous tea salon just off the place de la Madeleine.

Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through.

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

Give 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 gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

The journey is the thing.

Let thy pilgrimage be a prayer.

but to refire into new life. (5) We choose to interpret all the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual changes as new territory to traverse in our advancement. (6) We choose to see this aging process as our final pilgrimage—the one that will ultimately lead us to our Beloved, our Source. (7) We willingly and eagerly invite others to come with us and to help them along, just as we allow them to help us reach our sacred destination of heaven.

How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

Only a fool would call anywhere in this land a place and everywhere else a journey to it.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

Now, in the Scripture there is not the slightest trace of any such thing as a pilgrimage to the tomb of saint, martyr, prophet, or apostle. The very way in which the Lord saw fit to dispose of the body of Moses in burying it Himself in the plains of Moab, so that no man should ever know where his sepulchre was, was evidently designed to rebuke every such feeling as that from which such pilgrimages arise.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

At the end of 'God of War III,' after laying waste to Olympus, Kratos leaves and, for me, goes on this really long wandering pilgrimage.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Perhaps it has never struck you how consistently the great religious teachers and founders leave home, go on pilgrimage to far-off places, do a major turnabout, choose downward mobility; and how often it is their parents, the established religion at that time, spiritual authorities, and often even civil authorities who fight against them.