Quotes About Return

You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.

Then, together, they passed through the camp gate and marched up the road, toward wives and sweethearts and children and Mom and Dad and home.

No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home

Ella siempre dijo que él iba a volver, sabiendo que no era verdad. Yo lo repetía, pero a diferencia de ella, yo estaba segura de que iba a ser verdad.»

Did we really want her back? Hmmm . . .

This is why Jesus is hymned not as grape juice but as wine: because He is dangerous and excessive. He is more than you need, and He is more than pleasure, and if you attend to Him, you will find so much there that you will be derailed completely. And you will think your heart might break. And then, per Louis de Blois, He will withdraw and you will be miserable and sick until He returns.

It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return.

trying to lure Magellan and Faleiro back to Portugal.

he would complete the trip in a year or less and return with fresher, more potent spices.

On April 4, 1581, almost seven months after his return, she strode onto the deck of the Golden Hind at Deptford

What makes coming home so jarring, compared to other returns from other exotic places—?isn't simply culture shock. It's human shock, seeing so many people again after dwelling in a place so empty of them.

All praise is due to Allah. Allah is the One Reality, and that Reality is Love. We humans are love returning to Love. Sufis have taught great wisdom to humanity regarding the clearest ways to make that "return." The finest way is through remembering (dhikr) Allah at all times, and knowing that Allah alone exists.

When Jesus came to earth of old, He came in weakness and in woe; He wore no form of angel mould, But took our nature poor and low. But when he cometh back once more, Then shall be set the great white Throne; And earth and heaven shall flee before The face of Him that sits thereon.

It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.

the night before? He had been away four whole

Still: she returns in sudden flashes. Like scraps of half-remembered dreams.

It's the bad place I always come back to in my dreams.

God sees us as the physical Body of Christ, the one that will do the work in the earth until Jesus descends from the right hand of the Father. But that won't happen until His enemies are under His feet. If you want to accelerate Jesus' return to earth, then start putting the devil under your feet.

Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.

He stood looking after them... as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece.

Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, "Come back, my child, come back!

For my heart was softened by my return, and such a change had come to pass, that I felt like on who was toiling home barefoot from distant travel, and whose wanderings had lasted many years.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

Then they went up the steps of the neighbouring Saint George's Church, and went up to the altar, where Daniel Doyce was waiting in his paternal character. And there was Little Dorrit's old friend who had given her the Burial Register for a pillow; full of admiration that she should come back to them to be married, after all.