#grim

I don't think estates are grim places. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#grim #i #places #think

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#central #essential #faith #five #islam

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#blessings #bound #certainly #christian #duty

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#classes #encountered #i #instruction #john

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why. ↗

— Lindy Boggs

#grim #i #just #looking #many

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#happens #love #love is #most #people

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#another man #area #comes #experience #human

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. ↗

— John Bunyan

#get #give #him #i #me

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. ↗

— James M. Cain

#any #called #conscious #conscious effort #effort