Quotes About Sanctuary

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

The bedroom is the one place you can truly be yourself.

The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence as for his repose.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.

Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.

A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.

To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.

Close your eyes, tap your heels together three times, and think to yourself, There's No Place like Home.   —THE WIZARD OF OZ

intimate relationship can provide a sanctuary from the world of facades, a sacred space where we can be ourselves, as we are...This kind of unmasking-speaking our truth, sharing our inner struggles, and revealing our truth, sharing our inner struggles, and revealing our raw edges-is sacred activity, which allows two souls to meet and touch more deeply.

A Claridge's in London or a pub, a Cirro's in Paris or a bistro — alehouse, coffee-house, bodega, caravansary — by any name each is a sanctuary, a temple for talk, and for the observance of the warming rites of comradeship.

Make Your way to the everlasting ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary. Psalm 74:3

I live in Nottingham. I love just being at home. I can shut my front door, and it's like a little haven to me rather than thinking about going to certain places to... look good.

If a sanctuary city means that our police department does not enforce federal immigration laws, then we are one. But declaring yourself a 'sanctuary city' also signals to a lot of people that you are protecting hard-core criminals, which I don't, and I don't believe in.

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.

because commonsensically speaking, a room full of good books had to better for your health than a room with no books in it at all.

My dad could go to work, he could get raises, he could be thanked for his contributions, he got a pay-check for his labor, but that didn't happen for moms. The best they could hope for would be a crayon valentine or a squashed, limp dandelion flower offered up from the damp hand of their wide-eyed and innocent child. Which wasn't nothing. In all my days I'd never considered anything to be more important than home. In a chaotic world, it was sanctuary; it was where love grew.

She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book.

From the outside, it wasn't much. But to her it was everything she needed. A place to retreat and lick her wounds. Somewhere she didn't have to pretend. Sanctuary.

And that refuge was the most reliable place of all—between the pages of a book.