Top 169 Pilgrimage Quotes & Sayings

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

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

We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

The Christian life is a pilgrimage from earth to heaven, and our task is to take as many as possible with us as we make this journey.

I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.

Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

No golfers journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

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

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

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

If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.

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.

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. With a deepening of focus, keen prepartion, attention to the path below our feet, and respect for the destination at hand, it is possible to transform, even the most ordinary journey into a sacred journey, a pligrimage.

It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.

I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.

What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

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

At the end of 'God of War III,' after laying waste to Olympus, Kratos leaves and, for me, goes on this really long wandering pilgrimage.

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.

Did you see those Iraqis making that pilgrimage slashing their foreheads with knives and whipping their backs with chains. See, when Saddam Hussein was around they weren't allowed to make that pilgrimage. If they tried that with Saddam Hussein, he would have slashed their foreheads with knives and whipped their backs with chains.

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

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.

No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

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

I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth.

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.

The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.