Quotes About Pilgrims

The declared objective of the Templars, Guillaume de Tyre continues, was, "as far as their strength permitted, they should keep the roads and highways safe ... with especial regard for the protection of pilgrims.

When princes flee battle, and knights turn free-lance, and barons rob pilgrims, what value has honor?" "Why, all the more, seeing how rare it has become.

In seeking after what the soul desires we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.

Today is Thanksgiving, and an icicle breeze nips at your window and whips up the leaves. Ah, what a morning! The cold autumn haze brings visions of Pilgrims and Indians…and maize! So wrap in a blanket and don your warm socks and pretend you're descending an old Plymouth rock.

The original Starbucks began in Pike Place Market (see p. 897) as a plain-Jane hole-in-the-wall coffee shop but, having awakened a coffee revolution, has been opening everywhere else since—there are now more than 10,000 Starbucks retail operations on the planet—and counting. Still in business, that first location attracts Starbucks pilgrims from all over the world.

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.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

Pilgrims, petitioners, and priests crowded the stone-flagged avenue, praying, preaching, and proselytizing.

To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

What makes the Bible God's Word isn't its uncanny historical accuracy, as some insist, but the sacred experiences these stories point to, beyond the words themselves. Watching these ancient pilgrims work through their faith, even wrestling with how they did that, models for us our own journeys of seeking to know God better and commune with him more deeply.