Books Quote by Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

— Guru Nanak

“The way we experience the pilgrimage is a reflection of our inner state,’ the imam said. ‘To some of us it will be a…

— Kristiane Backer

“The primitive mind finds it hard to realize an idea without the aid of imagination, and it is the realm of space where imagination…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered…

— Saraha

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

— Frederick Buechner

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

— Ambrose Bierce

“An atheist may, of course, also feel clean after taking a bath and dirty without one, but the mikveh ritual, associating outer hygiene with…

— Alain de Botton

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

— Benjamin Haydon

“To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic…

— Paul Shepard

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

— Aristophanes

The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up…

— Anthony Lawlor

Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.

— K.P. Yohannan