Quotes about Journey

That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

I went to America to convert the Indians; but oh! who shall convert me?

God leads His children by a way that they know not, but He does not forget or cast off those who put their trust in Him.

Our time here is short. We can pass through this world but once; as we pass along, let us make the most of life.

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

those of us who wish to draw near to God should not be surprised when our vision goes cloudy, for this is a sign that we are approaching the opaque splendor of God. If we decide to keep going beyond the point where our eyes or minds are any help to us, we may finally arrive at the pinnacle of the spiritual journey toward God, which exists in complete and dazzling darkness.

I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.

Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are. When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, "Here, I guess, since this is where I am.

I have found things while I was lost that I might never have discovered if I had stayed on the path. I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.