Quotes About Sanctuary

The holiest people have many blemishes and defects when weighed in the balance of the sanctuary. Their life is a continual warfare with sin, the world, and the devil. Sometimes you will see them being overcome rather than overcoming. The flesh is always fighting against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh (Galatians 5:17),

It only took one searing mental snapshot of a comrade and his aircraft turned to a golden blob of flame by missiles, flak, or MiGs striking from a Washington-designated "sanctuary" to convince him that his ass really did belong to Uncle, and in this one, Uncle wasn't very concerned about it.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

In those paintings, angels clustered around the living and the dead who sit peaceably on thrones, making signs with their hands. Just outside the garden walls is regular life, there are normal streets with dogs and puddles, and merchants and money changers go about their business, and farmers are working in the fields, but inside those hidden, holy spaces, these solemn people are outside of time. They are beyond hurt, beyond wounding.

I had no altar, but I did not need one: anywhere I was became my temple.

Marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

Non avevo altare, ma non ne avevo bisogno: ogni luogo in cui mi trovavo era il mio tempio.

But there is harbor here.

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

If there is any true temple, true gurdwara, true mosque or true church, it is our own body. This place God has designed for Himself, and He sits within it.

He was safe here; this was the place he loved - sanctuary, the paradise of his despair.

place of pilgrimage, and was known as Heavenfield

Gabriel, to thee thy course by lot hath given Charge and strict watch that to this happy place No evil thing approach or enter in.

To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul.

The door was closed to men. It was a sanctuary where women could be themselves—smelly, wanton, mystic, conceited, truthful, and interested. The whalebone corsets came off at Dessie's, the sacred corsets that molded and warped woman-flesh into goddess-flesh. At Dessie's they were women who went to the toilet and overate and scratched and farted. And from this freedom came laughter, roars of laughter.

A man's bathroom is his castle

The Lord is my shelter.

She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

You may be in the fight of your life....don't fight it alone. God will send you help from the sanctuary.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

Houses are very important. Describe your house and I'll tell you who you are. Your world is there. It's what covers you, like a bird's feathers.