Quotes about Pilgrimage
Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.
— Psalm 122:2
where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
— Psalm 122:4
Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.
— Luke 2:41
When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
— John 2:13
So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.
— John 4:30
You can verify for yourself that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
— Acts 24:11
The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.
— Paulo Coelho
life is a quest for love and a quest for god, and there is no car or plane for this trip. it is an old-fashioned quest made on our own two feet.
— Peter Kreeft
We are not citizens of earth who are going to heaven; we are citizens of heaven who are traveling through earth.
— David Jeremiah
It is an old faith and it is a good faith that our life is a pilgrims progress - that we are strangers in the earth, but that though this be so, yet we are not alone for our Father is with us. We are pilgrims, our life is a long walk or journey from earth to heaven.
— Vincent Van Gogh
And the pilgrim goes on sorrowful yet always rejoicing - sorrowful because it is so far off and the road so long. Hopeful as he looks up to the eternal city far away, resplendent in the evening glow and he thinks of two old sayings that he heard long ago - the one is: "Much strife must be striven Much suffering must be suffered Much prayer must be prayed And then the end will be peace.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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
— Philip Yancey