christian living on Exploration

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Children—and then adults—with a firm foundation of joy also have the capacity to make positive contributions in the world. It starts with play and exploration. When a child has a firm foundation of jo...

The British mountaineer George Leigh Mallory became famous after multiple expeditions on Mount Everest. On a book tour in the U.S. in 1923, people would regularly ask him the question, “why did you wa...

Barbara Brown Taylor recounts her first experience with caving, the exploration of caves that are not prepared or made easily accessible for inexperienced explorers. Her guides gave her a bit of helpf...

On a cold January day, a forty-three-year-old man was sworn in as the chief executive of his country. By his side stood his predecessor, a famous general who, fifteen years earlier, had commanded his ...

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

I also vividly remember one of my teachers telling the story of three young boys whose route to school went alongside a high wall. Every day as the boys walked to school, they wondered what was on the...

Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that cap...

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Allow the presence of God to be the bridge through your uncertainty. The axis of uncertainty is disorientation, and let’s face it, who wants to be spinning in all directions while in transition? Resea...

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizons of our ho...

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild,...

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without reservation or regret.

Journey all over the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."

A good journey begins with knowing where you are and being willing to go somewhere else.

What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of depth and spiri...

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs ...

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

Entering the wilderness is a larger metaphor for dealing with our own demons, our own motivations, be they good or bad. In this short excerpt, Annie Dillard shares the value of entering the wilderness...

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they p...