Quotes about Journey

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.

Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into

A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

The question {WHY}, though, never goes away-- not for me, not for anybody. We keep groping toward light while living in darkness.

I do not get to know God, then do God's will; I get to know God by doing that will.

The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.

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.