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Quotes About Sanctuary

We know why: He who prays is our Head and our Life. All He has is ours and is given to us when we give ourselves all to Him. By His blood, He leads us into the immediate presence of God. The inner sanctuary is our home where we dwell. And He that lives near God and knows that He has been brought near to bless those who are far away cannot but pray.
~ Andrew Murray
He will be her one-room cottage, her oasis.
~ Anita Shreve
Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.
~ Ann Brashares
ALTAR  (A'LTAR)   n.s.[altare, Lat. It is observed by Junius, that the word altar is received, with christianity, in all the European languages; and that altare is used by one of the Fathers, as appropriated to the Christian worship, in opposition to the aræ of gentilism.]1. The place where offerings to heaven are laid. The goddess
~ Samuel Johnson
A young woman seeks sanctuary with us. It is not for us to deny her that right. Tell His Holiness that we will protect her with our lives and care for her until she is ready to leave." Not even Alexander VI can storm a convent and get away with it. The
~ Sarah Dunant
I loved reading but I loved books almost as much. Their look, their smell, their weight enshrined, to me, the worth that others found in religion, in bricks and mortar, even in relationships. A book could be friend, lover, family, priest, but more reliable than any of these. With books, one could wall off the world. In their shelter, a calm prevailed more profound than that of the stars or the sea.
~ John Baxter
The garden is a kind of sanctuary.
~ John Berger
I nipped into this sanctuary late this afternoon and soon heard the dying footfalls of closing time. From now on, my only effort will be to dodge the night watchman. Poets can dodge.
~ John Collier
I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres.
~ Christina Rossetti
The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond.
~ Edward McDonagh
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
~ Edward P. Morgan
How wonderful it is to have a place to return to.
~ Eiko Kadono
What seemed to interest and absorb her most was that all that filth, all that chaos of broken limbs and dug-out eyes and split heads was then covered—literally covered—by a church dedicated to San Giovanni Battista and by a monastery of Augustinian hermits who had a valuable library. Ah, ah—she laughed—underneath there's blood and above, God, peace, prayer, and books.
~ Elena Ferrante
But where can you go and truly not be found? Where can anyone go anymore?
~ Anthony McCarten
Biblioteket var hans tilfluktssted fra privatliv og offentlige oppgaver, fra verdens kjas og mas og samtidens uroligheter.
~ Antoine Compagnon
Hearthcraft is a spiritual path rooted in the belief that the home is a place of beauty, power, and protection, a place where people are nurtured and nourished on a spiritual basis as well as a physical and emotional basis.
~ Arin Murphy-Hiscock
I like Church furniture.
~ Andres Serrano
I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.
~ Boy George
It is not the sanctuary that is in danger; it is civilization. It is not infallibility that may go down; it is personal rights. It is not the Eucharist that may pass away; it is freedom of conscience. It is not divine justice that may evaporate; it is the courts of human justice. It is not that God may be driven from His throne; it is that men may lose the meaning of home; For peace on earth will come only to those who give glory to God! It is not the Church that is in danger, it is the world!
~ Fulton J. Sheen
With the crib seen as a tabernacle and the child as a kind of host, then the home becomes a living temple of God. The sacristan of that sanctuary is the mother, who never permits the tabernacle lamp of faith to go out.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Women all over this great land are creating spaces just for themselves, most often out of sheds in their backyards. They're fantasy cottages, bespoke bungalows, 'mama maisons,' if you will, for mothers and wives who need a sanctuary - a haven where they can do anything, or nothing.
~ Faith Salie
Quietness rose within Aquila, easing his wild unrest as the salve was cooling the smart of his gashed side. But that was always the way with Brother Ninnias-- the quietness, the sense of sanctuary, were things that he carried with him.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself
~ Hermann Hesse
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
~ Elie Wiesel