Pilgrimage Quotes

113 quotes by 92 authors

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for… — Timothy Radcliffe
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his… — Sivananda
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his… — Morris West
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther… — Joyce Carol Oates
We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there… — Terry Tempest Williams
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of… — Charles Dickens
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The… — Bruce Chatwin
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we… — Orhan Pamuk
And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait… — Philip Pullman
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying… — Charles Dickens
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but thatâ€™s not the aim of boats. — Paulo Coelho
The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer… — Thomas Merton
I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek… — Hermann Hesse
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine… — William Shakespeare
Then said he, â€™I am going to my Fatherâ€™s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me… — John Bunyan
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. — Anita Brookner
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. — Charles Dudley Warner
It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in the majesty of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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