Quotes About Sanctuary

At difficult times in my life Nature has always offered me refuge. For me it is not 'environment' or a 'place of leisure and relaxation' but a temple in which I experience feelings that are almost religious.

How, then, can the Temple be cleansed so that humans, with the polluting smell of death upon them, can nevertheless come into God's Presence? The answer supplied by the levitical rituals is that the sacrificial blood is the sign of God-given life, a life more powerful than death, a life therefore that purifies both sanctuary and worshipper.

Never again would anyone hurt or hunt Canto's 3K.

Para alguien con alma de jardinero, los jardines son especiales, más que una casa.

What does it mean to be safe in the world?

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

wooden pews for worship services.

We have a sanctuary in Christ, and He has equipped us with the armor of God. We

her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream.

Intellectuals who had made it to the West were beyond the reach of oppressive forces. They had a place of sanctuary. The fatwa changed all that. It redrew the boundaries of the free world, shrinking its borders and erasing zones of disputation from the map of the liberal mind.

Tu sais que t'es chez toi quand t'as trouvé un trou où calancher en paix.

A little house—a house of my own—Out of the wind's and the rain's way.

Cedo le armi. L'idea di Roma come spazio franco e rifugio di banditi: ecco qualcosa di affine. C'è qualcosa di antico nell'immagine del fuggiasco che viaggia nella tempesta, vede una capanna, bussa e viene accolto. Il templum. Il sacro perimetro che ti salva. Il luogo rifugio che nelle lingue del Mediterraneo d'Oriente ha lo stesso nome della santità. Barak. La baracca. Che poi sta alla radice di Barka, la gens di Annibale, e di Barcellone. Il vino ha chiuso il cerchio.

As for other mischief—my song has claimed this place for now. No evil may enter without invitation. They cannot come in." He glanced beyond us, behind Adam and me, toward the basement. "Not for a while.

El sueño nos ofrece un refugio del mundo y de todo su dolor.

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

Bibliotheken befinden sich schließlich außerhalb der realen Welt. Es sind abgeschiedene Orte, Zufluchtsstätten des reinen Denkens. Auf diese Weise kann ich für den Rest meines Lebens auf dem Mond weiterleben.

The doors of this House of God as well as the gate of its court, were all woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread and fine woven linen.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

The human body was the Temple of God.