Geoff Dyer Quotes

For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

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.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith.

I thought everybody would embrace and understand my reasons for becoming Muslim.

Jaipur is the hometown of my religious guruji. It has a special place in my heart, and I have been here several times.

If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.

I have visited Ajmer Sharif Dargah a couple of times before, and each time, it fills my heart with so much love and gratitude.

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.