Quotes about Journey

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. ( Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man's city?(100)

If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.