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Quotes About Sanctuary

For isint that what our homes are ultimately, our fantasies made corporeal, our secret selves exposed?
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Yuh-huh. They spooled it off the back of a big boat. My dad said it was for the bird sanctuary's telecommunications and Internet system. I asked him if birds use landline phones and Web browsers. He told me that information was classified.
~ Chris Grabenstein
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary." (Psalms 63: 1-2)
~ Chris Oyakhilome
I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.
~ Christina Baker Kline
The house must be a sanctuary.
~ Christina Baker Kline
the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.
~ Christina Baker Kline
He did get one thing right: Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home. I've spent my life yearning toward it, wanting to escape it, paralyzed by its hold on me. (There are many ways to be crippled, I've learned over the years, many forms of paralysis.) My ancestors fled to Maine from Salem, but like anyone who tries to run away from the past, they brought it with them.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
~ Helen Rowland
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
~ Helen Rowland
When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and the most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter the swamp as a sacred place--a sanctum sanctorum; there is the strength, the marrow of Nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To live as My princess," He told me gently, "I must become the center of your very existence. Your innermost being must become a set-apart place, a sacred sanctuary worthy of My presence. Your heart must be transformed into an intimate retreat, unstained by the pollution of the world, where you can discover more and more of Me and allow Me to shape you into My lily-white likeness.
~ Leslie Ludy
It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn't had that feeling much lately. He was going to enjoy it. He pushed his way back through the racks of greeting cards and cat calendars, back to where the actual books were, his glasses steaming up and his coat dripping on the thin carpet. It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
~ Lev Grossman
It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home. The
~ Lev Grossman
It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least half-way home
~ Lev Grossman
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
~ Lewis Mumford
Under President Obama, we saw an unwarranted extension of amnesty programs which neglected the root of the illegal immigration crisis. We saw a troubling lack of urgency in addressing the sanctuary cities which subvert the rule of law.
~ Luther Strange
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
~ Maria Monk
In Utah, the American melting pot is unstirred. Three out of four people are Mormons, and they are all here in this bleakly beautiful sanctuary 'behind the Zion curtain' because of religious persecution.
~ Shana Alexander
My life is scattered and busy. I think of my home as a resort. When I step through the door, I feel relaxed. I almost feel like I've taken a vacation.
~ Chip Conley
Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I'm warm.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm.
~ Jeanette Winterson