Quotes About Fortress

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

When you get lost in the flow of life, find yourself in the fortress of God!

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

Oh…bank vaults," Leo said. "Never thought about that.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Does it look like [drugs have] fucked me up? I'm sitting here on a beautiful beach in Mexico; I've written three books. I've got a fine one-hundred acre fortress in Colorado.On that evidence, I'd have to advise the use of drugs. —HST to Craig Vetter, 1974

The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.

Comes at the last, and with a little pinBores through his castle wall, and farewell king!

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

Huizi barely called anyone. He didn't get too involved with the details of his friends' lives. He was private, shut tight like a fortress. His short crew-cut and refined manners gave him the air of a Buddhist monk. Huizi would say never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

safety net against the temptations of the world.

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

La massa è sempre una sorta di fortezza assediata, ma assediata in senso duplice: essa ha il nemico dinnanzi alle mura, e ha il nemico in cantina. Durante lo scontro la massa attira sempre più persone. Dinnanzi a tutte le porte si adunano i suoi nuovi amici e chiedono imperiosamente di essere accolti.

We need Jesus Christ, our refuge, our fortress, the stronghold of my life. It takes desolation to teach us our need of Him.

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

But early in the twenty-first century it became clear that the planet was incapable of sustaining everyone alive at Western levels, and at that point the richest pulled away into their fortress mansions, bought the governments or disabled them from action against them, and bolted their doors to wait it out until some poorly theorized better time

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

Knowledge can protect you much better than a strong castle!

There certainly can and will be plenty of external difficulties in life; nevertheless, the soul that comes unto Christ dwells within a personal fortress, a veritable palace of perfect peace. 'Whoso hearkeneth unto me,' Jehovah says, 'shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil' (Prov. 1:33).

The keep is the place where everyone holed up if the castle got invaded.

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

No, it is events that give rise to fear -- when another has the power over them or can prevent them, that person becomes able to inspire fear. How is the fortress destroyed? Not by iron or fire, but by judgments... here is where we must begin, and it is from this front that we must seize the fortress and throw out tyrants.