Sermon Quotes on Journey

Frederick Buechner

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world’s sake – even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death – that little by little we start to come alive.

Leonard Cohen

It is good to be between a ruined house of bandage and a holy promised land.

Heraclitus

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Timothy Keller

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say, ‘I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I’m signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It’s going to be hard but I want to get there.

Thomas a Kempis

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Soren Kierkegaard

Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.

Fear and Trembling

Lemony Snicket

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Wayne Mack

Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is nothing less than maturity in Christ.

Kenji Miyazawa

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Alan Paton

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Richard Rohr

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

Not all those who wander are lost.

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings,#1)

M.A. Kelty

Watch your way then, as a cautious traveler; and don’t be gazing at that mountain or river in the distance, and saying, “How shall I ever get over them?” but keep to the present little inch that is before you, and accomplish that in the little moment that belongs to it. The mountain and the river can only be passed in the same way; and, when you come to them, you will come to the light and strength that belong to them.

Lewis Smedes

The pilgrim journey is not a burdensome trudge up a lonely road; it is a way that cuts through Jesus Christ Himself. Life begins, proceeds, and ends in Christ.

Union with Christ

Tom Wolfe

“What is it you’re looking for in this endless quest? Tranquillity. You think if only you can acquire enough worldly goods, enough recognition, enough eminence, you will be free, there’ll be nothing more to worry about, and instead you become a bigger and bigger slave to how you think others are judging you.”

A Man in Full

Austin Farrer

Every day opportunity shortens, our scope for learning our Redeemer’s love is narrowed by twenty-four hours, and we come nearer to the end of our journey, when we shall fall into the hands of the living God, and touch the heart of the devouring fire.

The Crown of the Year, Dacre; Reprint Edition,1954.

Frederick Buechner

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength for the journey that still lies ahead.

Henry E. Woodruff

Hikers refer to them as “middle-miles.” These are the most exhausting, challenging miles on the path, when the exhilaration of beginning the journey has evaporated into drudgery and the promise of the path’s end has not yet given new energy for the stepping.