Quotes about Footprints
God leaves footprints wherever He goes; love alone uncovers them.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
- Psalm 77:19
In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship
- Max Lucado
My constant companions were fears, not God. I convinced myself he was simply on vacation, out carrying someone else on that beach with all the footprints. My heart had shriveled, and my soul was as wrinkled
- Chris Fabry
Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over dented like geological sones, with the peculiar mark of his walk. Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger footprints--the footprints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
- Herman Melville
For those who choose to live no longer as tourists but as pilgrims, the Songs of Ascents combine all the cheerfulness of a travel song with the practicality of a guidebook and map. Their unpretentious brevity is excellently described by William Faulkner. "They are not monuments, but footprints. A monument only says, 'At least I got this far,' while a footprint says, 'This is where I was when I moved again.'"
- Eugene Peterson
In things of beauty, he contemplated the One who is supremely beautiful, and, led by the footprints he found in creatures, he followed the Beloved everywhere
- St Bonaventure
He said that there were no traces upon the ground round the body. He did not observe any. but I did - some little distance off, but fresh and clear Footprints? Footprints. A man's or a woman's? Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered: Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of s gigantic hound!
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Atoms dead could never thus stir the human heart of us Unless the beauty that we see the veil of endless beauty be, Filled full of spirits that have trod Far hence along the heavenly sod and seen the bright footprints of God.
- James Sire
Animals are footprints of God.
- Martin Luther