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The Pilgrimage
«Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| About:
Love,
Pilgrimage
| Keywords:
pilgrimage, pilgrimages, strategy, The Pilgrimage
«And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age»
Author: Francis Quarles
(Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
decrepit, pilgrimage, The Pilgrimage, The Stage
«Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.»
Author: Frederick Buechner
(Author)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
area, one way, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, points, summoned, summoning, summons, The Pilgrimage
«Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.»
Author: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
(Mystic, Poet)
| Keywords:
escape from, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, separateness, The Flame, The Pilgrimage
«My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.»
Author: John Bunyan
(Author, Minister)
| About:
Pilgrimage
| Keywords:
pilgrimage, pilgrimages, The Pilgrimage
«Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.»
Author: Swami Sivananda
(Founder, Monk, Physician)
| About:
Life,
Pilgrimage
| Keywords:
destination, domain, domains, eternal rest, illimitable, inns, Marches, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, roadside, The Pilgrimage
«Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
good nature, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, The Pilgrimage
«Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
elected, hopelessness, horror, Joy of, pilgrimage, skirt, skirted, The Pilgrimage, vanquished, vanquishes
«O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
adore, aid, Amen, beset, besets, besetting, blast, blight, blighted, blights, bloody, contrite, cover, drown, Fields, foot soldier, foot soldiers, guns, Hearts of, homes, hurricane, hurricanes, pale, patriot, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, protract, protracted, protracting, protracts, sakes, shells, shred, shredded, shreds, shriek, shrieked, shrieking, shrieks, smiling, Snow White, soldiers, sore, stain, tear, The Hurricane, the pale, The Pilgrimage, The White, thunder, unavailing, unoffending, widowed, widows, wounded, wring, Wringing, wrings, writhe, writhed, writhes, writhing
«India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the i»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
boundless, chose, forests, hills, Holy Places, India, nearest, pilgrimages, rivers, shores, symbol, The Holy Mountain, The Pilgrimage, visible
