Quotes about Journey

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.

Christmas is a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass our own.

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Anne Lamott's priest friend Tom, how to get through: Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe, he said. Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe. Salon April 25, 2003

What you're looking for is already inside you. You've heard this before, but the holy thing inside you really is that which causes you to seek it. You can't buy it, lease it, rent it, date it, or apply for it. The best job in the world can't give it to you. Neither can succes, or fame, or financial security - besides which, there ain't no such thing.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I love Wendell Berry's lines that "it may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. I can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes, like a deer at the salt.

One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are.