Quotes about Pilgrimage
Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.
- Martin Luther
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.
- NT Wright
They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Wisdom is about the lifelong process of being formed into mature disciples, who wander well along the unscripted pilgrimage of faith, in tune to the all-surrounding thick presence of the Spirit of God in us and in the creation around us.
- Peter Enns
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
- Exodus 23:17
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
- Exodus 34:23
then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.
- Deuteronomy 14:25
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.
- Deuteronomy 16:16
Blessed are those whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
- Psalm 84:5
they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
- Psalm 105:13
Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
- Psalm 119:54