Quotes about Pilgrimage

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

but if the Spirit "bloweth" where He "listeth," those, too, who have become believers here are made partakers of that gift; and that according to the proportion of their faith, not in consequence of their pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

We are not citizens of earth who are going to heaven; we are citizens of heaven who are traveling through earth.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

The Christian life of obedience is, therefore, not a pilgrimage toward a goal, as is commonly supposed. It is a witness or signpost to that telos (end, goal) that has already been achieved by Christ the Kurios and will be consummated in the last day by the action of God

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.