Pilgrim Quotes - Page 7

• It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

  Johann Arndt

  Christian, Mean, Blessing

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• If I profane with my unworthiest hand
  This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
  My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Two

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’

  Joanna Macy

  Hero, Heart, Adventure

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• Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Reflection, Men, Meditation

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• And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?

  Paul Elie

  Dark, Castles, Woods

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• For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.

  Henry Beston

  Stars, Night, Our World

  "The Outermost House". Book by Henry Beston, www.wired.com. 1928.

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• We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Holy Places, Return, Holy

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• In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Reading, Progress, Saws

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• They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Blood, Mountain

  James Russell Lowell (1896). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”

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• We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Life, Cities, May

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

  Al Stewart

  Travel, Land, Long

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• In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Joy, Doe

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• And so I am this pilgrim - if I can somehow answer your question - who's constantly amazed by this journey. Who is learning a new thing every single day. But who's not accumulating knowledge, because then it becomes a very heavy burden in your back. I am this person who is proud to be a pilgrim, and who's trying to honor his journey.

  Paulo Coelho

  Journey, Honor, Trying

  "The Alchemy of Pilgrimage". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 14, 2014.

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• The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lock picking or forging shooting permits in countries not favoring their projects. In short: for those who have a sense of poetry. For those who are pilgrims. For those who can tell a story to four year old children and hold their attention. For those who have a fire burning within. For those who have a dream.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Dream, Sex

  "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Wall, Israel, Cities

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• We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Thanksgiving, America, People

  "In Giving Thanks, Some Remember the Indians" by Georgia Dullea, www.nytimes.com. November 24, 1988.

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• No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

  George MacDonald

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Faith, Christian, Children

  J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.7848, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats.

  Bo Burnham

  Happy Thanksgiving, Hats, Should

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2009

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• Pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land, and the foundations of their faith. People go to Washington, D.C. to see the workings of government, and the foundation of our country. And fans flock to Nashville to see the foundation of country music, the Grand Ole Opry.

  Brad Paisley

  Country, Government, Nashville

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• I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.

  Tom Ford

  Country, Thinking, America

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• When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new solar system.

  Lenny Bruce

  Earth, Rockets, England

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
  Compelled to starve at an unreal feast:
  A spark, which upward tends by nature's force:
  A stream diverted from its parent source;
  A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea;
  A moment, parted from eternity;
  A pilgrim panting for the rest to come;
  An exile, anxious for his native home.

  Hannah More

  Home, Sea, Parent

  Hannah More, “Reflections Of King Hezekiah, In His Sickness”

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• I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me to star in. A friend of mine, who was an actor that I would compete against a lot, had written a script and was taking all these meetings. He just kept pushing me and was like, "You got to do it. You're going to love it!" He's a very successful screenwriter now. His name is Michael Bacall and he wrote 21 Jump Street, Project X, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. So it was a few factors.

  Danny Strong

  Writing, Successful, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.

  Kristian Bush

  People, Billy Pilgrim, Firsts

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