Quotes about Journey

God's purpose for the Christian's involvement in the church was radically different from my gas-station approach. The church wasn't merely a place to swing by for a fill-up. The journey of the Christian faith was supposed to be made with other believers. The church isn't a gas station, I realized. It's the bus I'm supposed to be traveling on.

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.

He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in the mild contemplation of the great world through which you move. True, it is said of the Shepherd that he carries the lambs in his bosom: but the sheep are expected to walk, and put up with the inequalities of the road, the bunts and blunders of the flock.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes a quest, in that movement God endows us with power.

Becoming a Christian takes only a single step; being a Christian means walking with Christ the rest of your life.

Sometimes it's best to start moving in the direction you think God may want you to go, and then trust Him to lead you—closing doors He doesn't want you to go through and opening up others.

Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It's not the destination, but the trip that they dread.

For centuries mankind has been on an incredible journey, taking him across every generation and through every conceivable experience in his search for God.

Some day our journey through this life will be over and we will embark on another journey—one that will last forever.

We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.