Quotes About Refuge

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.

Active addiction is a kind of hell. It is like being a hungry ghost, wandering through life in constant craving and suffering. Refuge Recovery, the Buddhist-inspired approach to treating addiction, offers a plan to end the suffering of addiction.

One can imagine an argument for the right of a persecuted minority to find refuge in another country able to accommodate it; one is hard-pressed, however, to imagine an argument for the right of a persecuted minority to politically and perhaps physically displace the indigenous population of another country. Yet, as Shapira [Zionist] forthrightly acknowledges, the latter was the actual intention of the Zionist movement.

Then do this. The knowledge won't harm you if you decide not to use it. You need to do this. You've taken refuge too long in doing nothing at all.

Mis refugios más bellos,/ los lugares que se adaptan mejor a los colores últimos de mi alma, / están hechos de todo lo que los otros olvidaron.

I opened my trunk and almost burst into tears. At such times I always sought refuge in a bookstore.

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

Too many disciples have faith in their faith, or in their joy in the Lord; and when a spiritual storm comes, they have neither faith nor joy. Only one thing can endure, and that is love for God. If such love is not there, we will not recognize the loving voice of God when He cries out to us that He is "our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble … be still, and know that I am God …" (Ps. 46:1, 10a).

Cedo le armi. L'idea di Roma come spazio franco e rifugio di banditi: ecco qualcosa di affine. C'è qualcosa di antico nell'immagine del fuggiasco che viaggia nella tempesta, vede una capanna, bussa e viene accolto. Il templum. Il sacro perimetro che ti salva. Il luogo rifugio che nelle lingue del Mediterraneo d'Oriente ha lo stesso nome della santità. Barak. La baracca. Che poi sta alla radice di Barka, la gens di Annibale, e di Barcellone. Il vino ha chiuso il cerchio.

For me, the Condé was a refuge from all the drabness I anticipated in life. There will one day be a part of me—the best part—that I will be forced to leave behind there.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

El sueño nos ofrece un refugio del mundo y de todo su dolor.

Este es tu tercer regalo. Si te van mal las cosas, puedes quedarte conmigo en la subrealidad. Es un sitio agradable, y allí estarás a salvo.

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

y de qué servía un hogar si uno no se sentía a salvo en él, si le trataban como a un paria precisamente en el sitio que debía servirle de refugio?

Every human being is in need of a king. All human beings need the rescue, forgiveness, justice, mercy, refuge, and protection that they are unable to give themselves.

the other great refuge from the Devil and his wiles is prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in what is not a relief from what is. Now the real, now illusion is our refuge; and the soul has finally no other resource but the true, which is her weapon -- and falsehood, which is her armor.

THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION Refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time ARMOURY OF FEARLESS TRUTH AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOR INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE From this place words may fly abroad NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF Friend you stand on sacred ground