Quotes About Sanctuary

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

Give me insight and wisdom in making my home reflect Your presence. You are welcome here! Amen.

Dear me, how I love a library.

I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

It was a place to bless God in and cease from vain words.

Yet now that the journey was done, sanctuary was ironically denied them.

God has some areas where he likes to be supplicated in, and the prayer of the supplicator is accepted (in those areas); the sanctuary of Husayn (a.s.) is one of these.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

You'll always be safe with me.

Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.

Portland calls itself a 'sanctuary city,' but it's nothing of the sort for a law-abiding journalist.

I do support 'sanctuary cities,' and I would be a firm, non-negotiable 'no' vote on any deliberations that include the possibility of blocking funding for them.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.

The thing that nobody talks about with nurseries is that it's also about creating a beautiful place for you. You spend so much time there, it needs to be a soft place to land.

Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice, to which we may continuously return.—Thomas Kelly

What happens in meditation is that we create the emotional and spiritual space which allows Christ to construct an inner sanctuary in the heart.

Soon I will sleep. What shall I dream of, my love? I will dream of you, of course. And I will dream for a place for us to be, a sanctuary where hearts will never break again. This is my dream, my heart. Never forget that there is no end to us, as there can be no end to love. Love must last forever, or why else would there be love? Until then, I will dream.

Don't we all seek Guarida, safe haven?

There should be just one safe place in the world

And here is the tabernacle reconstructed.

Whereupon people would come barging into his sanctuary, asking stupid questions and making stupid demands . . . and he, Jubal Harshaw, would have to make decisions and take action. Since he was philosophically convinced that all action was futile, the prospect irritated him.

My woods...the young fir balsams like a place Where houses all are churches and have spires.

San Francisco seems to be the last sanctuary for the rootless in its tolerance for every form of lifestyle.