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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• We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

  John H. Vincent

  Home, Earth, Inns

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 206, 1895.

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• A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Purpose, Wanderers

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

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Tourists

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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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• We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.

  Paulo Coelho

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• Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

  Morley Safer

  Cures

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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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• 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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• The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment' to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Home, Character

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• Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

  Joyce Cary

  Wise, Men, Sea

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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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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• 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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• 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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• The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

  George Santayana

  Christian, Country, Stranger

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.58, Рипол Классик

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• Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

  Bill Moyers

  Inspirational, Giving, Advice

  Bill Moyers (2012). “Healing and the Mind”, p.319, Anchor

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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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• 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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• One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Men, Years, Law

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

  Nelson DeMille

  Motivation, Journey, Maps

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• The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

  Dave Beard

  Turkeys, Usa, Evil

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