Quotes about Journey

The exodus, in fact, is really all about getting to Mount Sinai, and how the events there prepare the Israelites for their ultimate destiny—a kingdom in a land of their own.

Rather than providing us with information to be downloaded, the Bible holds out for us an invitation to join an ancient, well-traveled, and sacred quest to know God, the world we live in, and our place in it. Not abstractly, but intimately and experientially.

But in resisting, we may actually be missing an invitation to take a sacred journey, where we let go of needing to be right and trust God regardless of what we feel we know or don't know.

Mother Teresa. According to her own journal, she was in her dark night more or less from 1948 until near the time of her death in 1997.

But a faith that requires us to hold on to what we "know" becomes, we eventually discover, inadequate for handling the peaks and valleys of our humanity. It's also exhausting to try to hold it all together as it once was.

Doubt is God's way of helping us not go there, though the road may be very hard and long.

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.