Quotes About Refuge

Mi salvación fue leer, leer los buenos libros, refugiarme en esos mundos donde vivir era intenso, una aventura tras otra, donde podía sentirme libre y volvía a ser feliz.

Many qualities of the transitional object—its ability to survive intense love and hate, its resistance to change unless changed by the infant, its ability to provide refuge and warmth, and its gradual relinquishment—are all shared by bare attention. Like the transitional object for the infant, bare attention enjoys a special status for the meditator: it, too, is an in-between phenomenon.

He could not have loved Virginia Gamely more, and he wondered if what he assumed lay at such great distance were present in this very city -or even in Virginia herself, if the future were to be fair and imaginative enough to take refuge in a single soul.

Imagination is a writer's refuge and a renewable source of energy.

Education is an ornament in prosperity & a refuge in adversity.

If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...

Horror is made of such base material—so easily rejected or dismissed—that it may be hard to accept my postulate that within the genre lies one of the last refuges of spirituality in this, our materialistic world. But it is a fact that, through the ages, most storytellers have had to resort to the fantastic in order to elevate their discourse to the level of parable.

Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.

The evil which he had made his refuge vanished when crime was justified by virtue.

And for all her theoretical desire to make their house a refuge for him and for whomever he liked to invite, she had never learned to keep her opinions of people to herself. When she was bored by callers, she would beg Do you mind if I run up to bed now--such a headache, with a bright friendliness which fooled no one save herself, and which left their guests chilled and awkward.

Paris, that feminine and flirtatious refuge from reality.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

So where does one move? This clearly is a matter for much prayer and seeking God's face. In doing so, two factors should be taken into account: a.) does the potential location for immigration allow abortion; and b.) what is the level of Muslim population? The remaining nations of the world that today prohibit or severely restrict abortion and that have low levels of Muslim population are mostly in Central and South American, nations that, therefore, may offer an appropriate refuge.

the University being an asylum, a refuge from the world, for the dispossessed, the crippled.

Before he became Amir, Abdur Rahman had been defeated by Shir Ali in Kabul. He took refuge in Samarkand where he spent ten years. Taking him for a country bumpkin, the Russians used to discuss all their political affairs before him, convinced that he did not understand them. But the future Amir had studied Russian secretly and learned much about Asiatic politics. Walking through the empty halls of Jahnama, I thought of him—bearded, shrewd, wearing the astrakhan kola,

comparison with the millions of the world, God's people will be, as they have ever been, a little flock; but if they stand for the truth as revealed in His word, God will be their refuge.

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

When we are tempted to give in to despair, to give up to self-indulgence or apathy, we have a place of refuge that will protect us from the attacks of a battered conscience

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

The sick man himself had wasted greatly. All the life in him seemed to have taken refuge in the still brilliant eyes.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. I