adventure 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.

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...

Desire is part of what it means to be a child, as implied in Jesus’ words to his disciples when he tells them, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never ente...

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much more than the cultivation of an ever-shrinking horizon of self-preservation and...

“You are my greatest adventure.”

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...

“Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happeni...

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”

I…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 othe...

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

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.”

Before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, many believed the world ended somewhere beyond Gibraltar, reflected in Spain’s royal motto: “Ne Plus Ultra,” meaning, “there is no more beyond.” But when Columb...