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How to use the word pilgrimage in a Sentence?

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I am no longer the Pope but I am still in the church, i’m just a pilgrim who is starting the last part of his pilgrimage on this earth.

Benedict XV

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know today is a sad day in American history, for decades leftists and Hollywood liberals have made the pilgrimage to Cuba to pay homage to Fidel Castro and Raul Castro. It's very chic, it's very chichi for leftists to celebrate vicious communist dictators.

Sunday Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Had it happened an hour later it would have been much worse, had it happened five hours earlier or four hours earlier, I think the death toll would have been more than a thousand. Construction cranes surround the Grand Mosque, which is undergoing expansions to make the pilgrimage more manageable, he said.

Khaled Al-Maeena

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Getting over the border took forever because of the huge U.S. pilgrimage, once there, I was amazed by the energy from the U.S. fans -- young kids in USWT jerseys, strangers high fiving each other, singing, chanting.

David Alperovitz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We'll have young people coming who are willing to sleep on floors, families coming who are thrilled they will have some place to stay they can afford, they will be viewing this as a pilgrimage.

Donna Farrell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In addition to arranging pilgrimages for unqualified people, the investigated officials were found to have asked for and received bribes or neglected the inspection and management of pilgrimage work.

China Daily

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

A. C. Benson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

Anita Brookner

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting.

Hermes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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