Quotes About Sanctuary

The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.

To keep from crying in front of everyone, I ran down the hall, opened the first door I saw, and dashed inside. Too late I realized the room was already occupied. An old man in a wheelchair sat beside a window. Of all the places I might have gone, I'd chosen Great-grandfather's sanctuary.

The church is not a place for perfection. It is, and should be, a haven of protection.

Encontrar a Fedro guiando a Sócrates casi al mismo sitio, quizá lo era, le había impresionado profundamente. El árbol de amplia copa, la verde ladera en que recostarse, el agua fría al pie; sólo faltaban las ofrendas votivas y el santuario. «Concededme ser hermoso por dentro ?había suplicado Sócrates? y haced que las cosas exteriores e interiores se reconcilien».

The library was a little shelter of civilisation.

There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.

Where God sets up the tabernacle of his ordinances he will himself dwell.

There are hundreds of sanctuary jurisdictions across the country. Some left-wingers use the dreadful euphemism "civil liberties safe zones" to describe them. The phrase blurs the distinction between citizens and non-citizens by implying illegal aliens somehow possess a civil right to be present in the U.S.

It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave, in presence of death, or grief, or love, reveals the same features, hides beneath its impenetrable mantle the self-same treasure. For this is the essential silence of our soul, our most inviolable sanctuary, and its secret can never be lost;

make for yourself at least a little corner, somewhere in the great world, where you may unbosom and be kind.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God."

Što ima više svetih skloništa iza kojih se ljudi kriju, sve je više prostora za ljudsko zlo. ?ovjek uvijek izmisli razlog izvan sebe, da bi se oslobodio odgovornosti i krivice.

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

A house without security cannot be a home!

He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

Home is where you make it."

Culture is the last refuge, the sanctuary, the human place in the midst of the surrounding dehumanization. Through the arts man is able to know himself, even if only on the intuitive level. He senses his own worth, even when he cannot articulate it.

The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of human interactions was so complex.

The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex.

what you wanted more than anything right then, was simply to sleep in your own bed, eat in your own kitchen, sit on your own toilet. You wanted to stop seeing the world. You wanted to see your world. So we would drive.

We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

A gang is where someone goes to hide.