Quotes about Journey

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a drive toward [loving the One] who rings our heart like a bell. —ABRAHAM HESCHEL

For me, at least, guidance only becomes evident when I look backward, months and years later. Then the circuitous process falls into place and the hand of God seems clear. But at the moment of decision I feel mainly confusion and uncertainty. Indeed, almost all the guidance in my life has been subtle and indirect.

God already knows who we are; we are the ones who must find a way to come to terms with our true selves.

It makes a huge difference whether I treat a nonbeliever as someone who is wrong rather than as someone who is on the way but lost.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Safe?" he said, a sudden lightness in his tone. "It may or may not be safe, but it will most definitely be worth it.

Making sense of God's call is not a prerequisite for following it. His Word and His promises are enough.

1. I DO SOLEMNLY RESOLVE to embrace my current season of life and will maximize my time in it. I will resist the urge to hurry through or circumvent any portion of my journey but will live with a spirit of contentment.

Righteousnessis like the train that travels on the track. If not for the rails, the train wouldn't have anything to run on.

The Water is there. It is always there. Call them. Show them the way.