Quotes About Refuge

Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. (Ps. 62:5–8 NIV)

A Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need

Pilgrims in better circumstances are often stricken down by the sun and the fevers of the country, and then their saving refuge is the Convent. Without these hospitable retreats, travel in Palestine would be a pleasure which none but the strongest men could dare to undertake. Our party, pilgrims and all, will always be ready and always willing, to touch glasses and drink health, prosperity and long life to the Convent Fathers of Palestine.

la cultura es a la vez algo necesario y casual, como el lecho de un nido, un refugio frente al mundo, un pequeño contra-mundo aceptado tácitamente por el grande de una forma relativamente indiferente, pues no contiene ninguna respuesta a las preguntas sobre el bien y el mal, la belleza y la fealdad, las reglas y las costumbres.

Zagledal je temno, veliko, obla?no nebo, iz katerega — je pomislil — so pred stoletji izgnali Boga, pribežališ?e slabi?ev in premagancev.

Habitually, as we anxiously flee from the responsibility of our existence as a whole, we place our hope in the particular objects and situations of the world. This, however, fails to provide us with a secure refuge and our initial anxiety asserts itself again.

The Lord is my rock, shield and great defender.

The Redeemer is our secured refuge.

The Lord is my strength.The Lord is my strong shield.The Lord is my shelter.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

I always think this is the kind of place that people come back to. When they've become tired of everything else. Or when they don't have enough imagination to go anywhere else.

On the other side of the river and the shattered ammunition dump swarmed the hundreds of men who had taken refuge weeks before in holes in the river banks in order to avoid the fighting, and whom Langlais compared to the crabs on tropical coasts. Dregs of humanity, deserters – Langlais could not find words sufficiently contemptuous for them.

Christians are spoken of as those "that have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them," Heb. 6:18

About Justice departing from the shepherds: Justice illustrates a passage from Virgil's Georgics, in which he describes how Astraea, the goddess of Justice, who used to live among mortals during the Golden Age, took refuge among country people, as times degenerated, and at length fled even from them. Rosa shows the cloud-borne goddess departing from a tumbledown farmstead as she hands her sword and scales to a bemused group of peasants, one of whom awkwardly pulls of his hat in respect.

Sans l'aimer lui-même, il était sûr qu'elle l'aimait et cette certitude le rassurait. Quelqu'un l'attendait, il avait un refuge, et maintenant plus rien.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.

I have so much love for football, that I think is the reason why I seek refuge in training - I'm always guided by that desire to conquer, to win.

My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me - San Francisco was a real refuge.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.