Quotes about Journey

Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.

It is a grace to be able to hold onto someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.

Song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

None of us ever gets to be in relationship with a finished person. God's redemptive work of change is ongoing in all our lives.

God will take us where we have not planned to go in order to produce in us what we could not achieve on our own.

What God has begun in you, he will complete. Your destiny has already been decided. The One who decided it will give you all you need to get there.

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

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Beyond that, God will sometimes take us down a different path or on a different journey than we could have conceived or imagined. The simple phrase we are asked to insert, "If the Lord wills," is pregnant with meaning. It is a statement of surrender under the lordship and rule of God. It is an acknowledgment that our plans are not to be our own. Rather, they are God's to make, and we are to follow.

Faith is never simply a feeling. Faith always involves movement. Get moving.