Quotes about Path

I got here the same way the coin did.

He said the wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror men will not speak against it. That men have just enough stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose. He said that true evil has power to sober the smalldoer against his own deeds and in the contemplation of that evil he may even find the path of righteousness which has been foreign to his feet and may have no power but to go upon it.

To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. -from Song of the Open Road

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

The river, the river itself, leaves marks but bears none. It is only water flowing in a path that other water has worn.

Whenever you are willing to obey me, Much-Afraid, and to follow the path of my choice, you will always be able to hear and recognize my voice, and when you hear it you must always obey. Remember also that it is always safe to obey my voice, even if it seems to call you to paths which look impossible or even crazy.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

The Lord is anxious to lead us to the safety of higher ground, away from the path of physical and spiritual danger. His upward path will require us to climb.

I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.