Pilgrim Quotes

168 quotes by 133 authors

Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the… — Pope Francis
I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth, — Pope Benedict XVI
The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of… — Russell Kirk
People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell. — J C Ryle
If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of… — Kevin DeYoung
In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred. — Phil Cousineau
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything. — Phil Cousineau
He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to… — Anandamayi Ma
To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and be transformed by… — Mark Nepo
My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements.… — David Brainerd
It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his… — James Joseph Sylvester
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from… — William Winwood Reade
It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly… — Johann Arndt
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. — Chauncey Depew
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy… — John Dryden
Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as… — H. Richard Niebuhr
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. — Lionel Blue
Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty.… — Calvin Coolidge
Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though… — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home. — Giovanni Giocondo

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