Quotes About Place

When I know God's place, I can know my place— then things start to fall into place.

When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place.

The first step in personal revival is to get God in His rightful place. When God is recognized as being above me, beyond me, highly exalted, over me, and totally separate from me, I am getting in position for a downpour. When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place. That's what God's holiness does for us—it puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.

Merton said many times that when it comes to spirituality, experience is the place to start.

To have such boundaries means that the date, place, and membership of each finite game are externally defined.

Charles Portis shows his mastery of place and the more complicated subtleties of time.

a terrible place, a cursed place," he said dreamily

the dining halls were strangely quiet without that great braying hee-haw of his echoing in its customary place by the milk machine.

I suppose I was only a little depressed, now the novelty of it had worn off, at the wildly alien character of the place in which I found myself: a strange land with strange customs and peoples and unpredictable weathers.

Evil the drink and ill the resting place. I am not, unfortunately, asleep.

Well, it is the law, my lord,' replied Mr Blundell, 'and it's not my place to argue about it.

Then, with many false starts and blank feet, returning and filling and erasing painfully as she went, she began to write again, knowing with a deep inner certainty that somehow, after long and bitter wandering, she was once more in her own place. Here, then, at home …

Did you ever go to a place . . . I think it was called Norway?" "No," said Arthur, "no, I didn't." "Pity," said Slartibartfast, "that was one of mine. Won an award, you know. Lovely crinkly edges. I was most upset to hear of its destruction.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

It is a mystery to me," I said, "how anyone gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

it was only then that I understood how longing for a place can take you over so that you can do nothing except return, as I did, return and pick at the city, scraping together bits of the place you once knew. But what do you do if you can never return?

Hell is a place forged in the mind and is fueled by fear.

But the work of man is only just beginning, and it remains to conquer all the violence entrenched in the recesses of our passions...and no race possesses the monopoly of beauty, of intelligence, of force. And there is a place for all at the rendezvous with victory.

It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in order to find the world.

With my head crammed full of art, literature, theater, music and film knowledge, I continued to wander, vainly looking for a place to make use of it.

Dirty Freds... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art.

I loved the sound of the snow. It was calm and echoey at the same time, and the world felt a safer place being insulated by it. My

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

Place is the fabric of our lives, memory and identity are stitched through it. Without having somewhere of one's own, a place that is home, freedom is an empty word.