Quotes about Journey

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.

The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

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

For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find Him.

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