Quotes About Sanctuary

The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.

I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom.

at home the very walls lend you strength

The families had chosen to seek refuge in the historic sanctuary and had hung a banner out front that read, "How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

It is really important that you live in a place that has good energy. Where you sleep, where you dream, where you meditate, where you spend a lot of time is key.

She fled up the stairs to her room. But her room did not provide sanctuary enough. She needed to be quite alone. She needed to be somewhere where she could recollect herself and find some peace.

Some people look forward to going to heaven after they die," he said. "For years after I purchased it, Rose Cottage was the earthly heaven to which I aspired.

Home, he said softly. If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.

Home...if there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.

in the storm of emotions, we can create a small, peaceful sanctuary within.

Pero mis sueños eran sólo míos; no permitía que nadie entrara en ellos; eran mi refugio en el hastió y el placer más querido en la alegría.

El lugar fue mi retiro, y descansé feliz de haber hallado un refugio, por miserable que fuese, para protegerme de la inclemencia de la estación, y aún más de la barbarie del hombre.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

Our world in that living room with its window framing my beloved Elburz Mountains became our sanctuary, our self-contained universe, mocking the reality of black-scarved, timid faces in the city that sprawled below.

Those of us who give body and soul to projects that never seem to end- child rearing, housecleaning, gardening- know the value of the occasional closed door. We need our moments of declared truce.

it came to feel more a fortress than a home. A fortress of solitude.

The walls flickered in the candlelight. The room felt close and warm, like an underground sanctuary.

May Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion. And may I be able to awaken Thy love in all hearts.

What is a cozy home? Where you enter and you feel the radiance of your divine self.

Porque é que cada pequena localidade não pode ter um santuário dedicado a uma grande peça de arte, em vez de as peças estarem todas juntas de uma forma que torna impossível a quem quer que seja apreendê-las de uma única vez? Uma só obra-prima não é suficiente para uma sala, ou até para um edifício? Ter numa única sala dez grandes obras de arte, ou cem, é absurdo, uma vez que cada uma delas é um mundo em si e por si.

Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. "Temple" means... that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the remainder of the land which is used either for agriculture or habitation... Similarly in divine worship a certain definite space of time is set aside from working hours and days... and like the space allotted to the temple, is not used, is withdrawn from all merely utilitarian ends.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.