As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Quotes about pilgrimage (15 Quotes)
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hopes true gage And thus Ill take my pilgrimage.
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.... Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary.... Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy.... The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting.'
You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
Commonsense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
For myself, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.
A hypocritical Boston tycoon once told Mark Twain, 'Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the top of Mount Sinai in the Holy Land and read the Ten Commandments aloud.' 'Why don't you stay right home in Boston,' suggested Twain, 'and keep them.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.