Quotes About Refuge

For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. – Isaiah 25:4

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up whatever her ladies-in-waiting happened to be reading. She always kept a book in her room and carried another in her pocket.

the power of jealousy is one of the most important facts to be taken account of in the derivation of sexual morality. In a world where sexual prohibitions are of diminishing force, we should not be surprised that so many people take refuge from jealousy in the avoidance of love. For where love exists, the price of sexual freedom is suffering.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

From time to time they move you around from one cell to another, and that's always a big deal in your life. Your cell is just about all you've got, your only refuge. Like an animal's cage, it's your home — a home that would make anyone envy the homeless.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

The genius of Alba de Céspedes in this book is in shattering the illusion that writing is a place of refuge, and replacing it with the certainty that it is a place that always both pollutes and sabotages us." As Valeria discovers: toward the end of the novel, she tells her daughter, "Save yourself, you who can do it.

El alma tiene extraños refugios.

Se lei vuole una cosa e però ne ha paura non ha che da mettere un vetro in mezzo... tra lei e quella cosa... potrà andarle vicinissimo eppure rimarrà al sicuro... Non c'è altro... io metto pezzi di mondo sotto vetro perché quello è un modo di salvarsi... si rifugiano i desideri lì dentro, al riparo dalla paura... una tana meravigliosa e trasparente... Lo capisce lei tutto questo?

Luck is the last refuge of the incompetent,

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works

Every child should have a safe place in their life.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

I closed my eyes, feeling the tug of the books. This was my refuge, my fortress of solitude. Standing in this quiet cave, surrounded by walls of books, was normally enough to ease my mind no matter how stressful things got . . . but not today. Today the books called to me. Every one was a gateway to magic, waiting to be unlocked.

Louisiana was notorious as the last refuge of French whores and scoundrels. By

The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him. NAHUM 1:7

How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you. PSALM 31:19

When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

Os meus sonhos são um refúgio estúpido, como um guarda-chuva contra um raio.

The downfall of aristocratic influence has created an atmosphere of brutality and indifference towards the arts, such that a refined sensibility has nowhere to take refuge.

What would become of the world if we were human? If man really felt, there would be no civilization. Art is a refuge for the sensibility that action was obliged to forget.

To sleep, to be far away, remote without knowing it, to forget with one's very body, to have the freedom of unconsciousness like a refuge on a forgotten lake, stagnating among thick foliage in the hidden depths of forests