Quotes About Sanctuary

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

This is where God hangs out.

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.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

The land of delight is holy sanctuary.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home.

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

There is no place more delightful than home.

A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.