Pilgrim Quotes

• In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  Carl Jung

  Hiking, Hands, Progress

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

  Chauncey Depew

  Father, Rocks, Usa

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• Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

  Leon Edel

  Eye, Four, Obsession

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• The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Tourists

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• A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Purpose, Wanderers

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• I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, World, Earth

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Wise, Goal, Territory

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• In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

  Phil Cousineau

  Sacred, Contact, Direct

  Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.92, Conari Press

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• Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid

  John Wayne

  Stupid, Tough, Life Is

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• I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen

  John Baillie

  Wise, Heart, Yield

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Kings, Blessed

  "Vera Sapientia or True Wisdom". Book by Thomas a Kempis,

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• Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.

  Oscar Romero

  Church, Bears, Forget

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• Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Spiritual, Journey, Poet

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• Do you realize that if the pilgrims have been chasing bobcats instead of turkeys.. we'd all be eating pussy on Thanksgiving?!

  Redd Foxx

  Turkeys, Pussy, Bobcats

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• Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Desire, Way

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• A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Spiritual, Determination, Journey

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• This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Miserable, Stranger

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.232

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• Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

  J. C. Ryle

  Blessed, Stranger, This Life

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.195, Editora Dracaena

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• There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, White, America

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, New York: The Random House Publishing Group. p. 390, 1965.

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• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

  e. e. cummings

  Children, Father, America

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• This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Music, Song, Hate

  "Scott Pilgrim". Comic book series by Bryan Lee O'Malley, 2004 - 2010.

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• Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Artist, Alchemist

  Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (1985). “The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton”, p.379, New Directions Publishing

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• Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Reality, Thinking

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• We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.

  Paulo Coelho

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• If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Stars, Struggle, Thinking

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