Pilgrimage Quotes - Page 6

• Fullness to such a burden is
  That go on pilgrimage;
  Here little, and hereafter bliss,
  Is best from age to age.

  John Bunyan

  Age, Goes On, Littles

  John Bunyan (1776). “The Pilgrims Progress: From this World to that which is to Come”

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• What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Blessed, Men, Joy

  Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.34, Broadway Books

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• What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.

  Chanakya

  Heart, Austerity, Vices

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• It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals.

  Henry M. Field

  Justice, Religion, Charity

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• Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

  Guru Nanak

  Eight, Shrines, Sacred

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• Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]

  Thurgood Marshall

  Patriotic, Justice, Feelings

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• The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Giving, Romance

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• Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Nature, Fancy, Facts

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.113

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• In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Men, Fire

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.302

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• Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.

  Karen Russell

  Regret

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• It has been demonstrated that freemason - in an operative context - is a contraction of 'freestone mason'....The earliest printed use so far traced comes in The Pilgrimage of Perfection - usually attributed to William Bonde - printed in 1536 by Wynkyn de Worde.

  John Hamill

  Perfection, Use, Masons

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• To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

  Edouard Boubat

  Photography, Quests, Painting

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• The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death the whole life is summed up, in death you arrive. Life is a pilgrimage towards death. From the very beginning, death is coming. From the moment of birth, death has started coming towards you, you have started moving towards death.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Moving, Blossoming

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• Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action is He, the One Himself. While attending to your work with your hands, keep yourself bound to Him by sustaining japa, the constant remembrance of Him in your heart and mind. In God's empire, it is forgetfulness of Him that is detrimental. The way to Peace lies in the remembrance of Him and of Him alone.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Lying, Heart, Hands

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• Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Play, Crowns

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• In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

  Nathalia Crane

  Color, Rose, Darkness

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Way, Fields

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.13

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• Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at every level, including the religious-which means it should be essential reading for everybody.

  Donna Freitas

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

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• Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Brain, Noise, Chance

  Ellsworth Barnard, Edwin Arlington ROBINSON (1969). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, New York Macmillan 1952.

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• Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you do? In unconsciousness, sin is bound to happen. Sin simply means that you don't know what you are doing, you are unaware, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. But to recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of a great pilgrimage. To recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of real virtue. To see that "I am ignorant" is the first glimpse of wisdom.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mean, Ignorant

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• Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Frustration, Cities, Effort

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The Bible is a Perfect Map and Chart to the Christian on Pilgrimage Through the World.

  George Frederick Pentecost

  Christian, Perfect, World

  George Frederick Pentecost (1885). “"In the Volume of the Book ": Or, the Profit and Pleasure of Bible Study ... with an Introduction by Revs. Joseph Cook and J.H. Vincent”

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• People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Iran, Should Have, People

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• Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, People

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• 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.

  Georg Hermes

  Art, Animal, Men

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