adventure on Perspective

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.

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

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...

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

In John Perkins’ memoir, Dream with Me, the civil rights leader describes how a life lived with God can change very suddenly, and what was seemingly impossible can become possible: How in the world ...

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...

'"Oh! That was poetry!' said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?”

It is characteristic of any great work of literature to have in its ending something that brings a sense of harmony to the whole. Like the finale of a symphony, or the confetti at the end of a nationa...

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,...

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.”

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

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...

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 will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

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...

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...

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

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

In the novel The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien, there is a poem called the “Riddle of Strider.” One stanza goes like this:  All that is gold does not glitter;  Not all who wan...

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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...

Gandalf: I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.  Bilbo: I should think so—in these parts! We are plain, quiet folk and have n...

“Yes, that’s so,” said Sam. “And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose its often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: a...

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

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”

Most of life is autobiographical for all of us—and so it was for [C. S.] Lewis. Growing out of his years of sorrow, especially the ones of watching his mother become sick and die, The Magician’s Neph...

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...

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.