Quotes about Journey

We live as spiritual men when we live as men seeking God.

Good Shepherd, You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles. But please don't get tired of looking for me! I know You won't. For You have found me. All I have to do is stay found.

Mere sitting at home and meditating on the divine presence is not enough for our time. We have to come to the end of a long journey and see that the stranger we meet there is no other than ourselves—which is the same as saying that we find Christ in him. For if the Lord is risen, as He said, He is actually or potentially alive in every man.

We believe, not because we want to know, but because we want to be.

Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis but first of all by living.

The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ.

All theology is a kind of birthday Each one who is born Comes into the world as a question For which old answers Are not sufficient…

It was when Jonas was traveling as fast as he could away from Nineveh, toward Tharsis, that he was thrown overboard, and swallowed by a whale who took him where God wanted him to go.

No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.

In one sense we are always travelling, and travelling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived.

look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless he has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace, yet if we wait for grace to move us, before beginning to seek Him will probably never begin.

It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another mans city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life?