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I once was significantly lost. When I was a college student in northern Wisconsin, my dad and I were hiking on a trail that was somewhat familiar to me. I had been on this trail just a few weeks befor...

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...

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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

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

I’ve decided if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets. . . . I would not only go barefoot earlier in spring and stay out lat...

I mean, in the last few months alone, I've been pinned in a big set of white-water rapids, been bitten by an angry snake in a jungle, had a close escapewith a big mountain rockfall, narrowly avoid...

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for...

Journalist Eric Severeid recalls a valuable lesson he learned at seventeen while preparing for an ambitious journey. He and a friend had set out to canoe from Minneapolis to the historic fur-trading p...

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

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

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.

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...

When we keep purchasing, keep consuming, and keep envying and coveting, we are pining for what the objects represent: peace, ease, meaning, beauty, stability, adventure, knowledge, renown, connection,...

Sometimes in our adolescence what we need most is just someone to stick by our side, even if we make some rather hasty decisions. In this short excerpt, Bob Goff tells a story from his own teenage yea...

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

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

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you start...

I met a man who watches The Lord of the Rings movies every night. When he told me this I pushed back: “Every night?” He said that when he gets off work he goes home, fixes his dinner, turns on the m...

Insistence on security is incompatible with the way of the cross. What daring adventures the incarnation and the atonement were! What a breach of convention and decorum that Almighty God should renoun...

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

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

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...

The "flight to nowhere" sold out in just ten minutes, with Qantas Airways declaring it the fastest-selling ticket in the airline's history. By nature, humans are constantly on the move, ...

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

They who navigate little streams and shallow creeks, know but little of the God of tempests; but they who “Do business in great waters,” these see his “wonders in the deep.”

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!