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
We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps. — Nelson Demille
Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. — Phil Cousineau
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. — Sivananda
[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained. — Ernest Kurtz
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. — Jonathan Edwards
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. — Huston Smith
To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim. — Mark Nepo
The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill. — John of the Cross
Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven! — Pope Urban II
Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love. — Paulo Coelho
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness. — Rumi
Those who walk with God always reach their destination. — Henry Ford
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Jim Morrison
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
Pilgrim Quotes
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith. — Ibn Arabi
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it. — John Bunyan
My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith. — Ibn Arabi
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
My heart can take on any form:
A meadow for gazelles,
A cloister for monks,
For the idols, sacred ground,
Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,
The tables of the Torah,
The scrolls of the Quran.
My creed is Love;
Wherever its caravan turns along the way,
That is my belief,
My faith. — Ibn Arabi
Do you realize that if the pilgrims have been chasing bobcats instead of turkeys.. we'd all be eating pussy on Thanksgiving?! — Redd Foxx
We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has. — Amy Carmichael
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face. — William Butler Yeats
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines. — American Proverbs
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim. — Themistocles
Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven. — John Bunyan
a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had. — John Bunyan
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world. — John Bunyan
All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." — Archibald Alexander
Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none. — John Bunyan
He that is down needs fear no fall. — John Bunyan
For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit. — John Bunyan
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress. — Aldous Huxley
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. — John Bunyan
To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond. — John Bunyan
Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion. — John Bunyan
This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. — John Bunyan
It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people. — H. Richard Niebuhr
I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book. — John Bunyan
I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor? — John Bunyan
A saint abroad, and a devil at home. — John Bunyan
The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue. — John Bunyan
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? — Samuel Johnson
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. — Lionel Blue
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. — Benjamin Franklin
Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays were cheap, so you could buy those, but a folio cost a pound, which was an incredible amount of money then. — Stephen Greenblatt
Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures. — Charles Spurgeon
Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough. — Mark Twain
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
Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive. — Mahatma Gandhi
John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot pay you back.” Make a decision that you will live to give. Be on the lookout each day for somebody you can bless. Don’t’ live for yourself; learn to give yourself away, and your life will make a difference. — Joel Osteen
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