Quotes About Dwelling

Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

If each of us is the center of his or her existence, Orest seemed intent on enlarging the center, making it everything. Is this what athletes do, occupy the self more fully? It's possible we envy them for a prowess that has little to do with sport. In building toward a danger, they escape it in some deeper sense, they dwell in some angelic scan, able to leap free of everyday dying.

But indeed, a home had been built.

Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.

Jesus doesn't participate in the rat race. He's into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling—all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace. Words used to describe us being with Him.

Jesus doesn't participate in the rat race. He's into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling — all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. (Psalm 91:1 AMPC)

He's into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling—all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace.

provided a fine home

If we first purify our souls, we desire to dwell in clean surroundings.

I saw the picture of it in his eyes: the great captain walking to him across the fields of asphodel. He would kneel on smoky knees, and Odysseus would gesture him up. They would dwell side by side in the house of the dead. Side by side, where I could never go.

Like the fires caught and fixed by a great colourist from the impermanence of the atmosphere and the sun, so that they should enter and adorn a human dwelling, they invited me, those chrysanthemums, to put away all my sorrows and to taste with a greedy rapture during that tea-time hour the all-too-fleeting pleasures of November, whose intimate and mysterious splendour they set ablaze all around me.

Is it not possible that a place could have huge affection for those who dwell there? Perhaps your place loves having you there. It misses you when you are away and in its secret way rejoices when you return. Could it be possible that a landscape might have a deep friendship with you? That it could sense your presence and feel the care you extend towards it? Perhaps your favourite place feels proud of you.

God is determined that you should be in every respect his friend, his companion, his dwelling place.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

Our home will eat you.

He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.

Depois de tantos anos, deixamos de viver na casa e passamos a ser a casa onde vivemos. - É como se as paredes nos vestissem a alma

Quien vive en estas casas no es gente —rectifica el administrador. —¿No vive gente? —pregunta Gustavo—. Entonces ¿quién vive? —Ahora quien vive aquí es el miedo —responde.

Onde é que você vive? - perguntavam-lhe. - Eu não vivo, eu apenas moro - respondia invariavelmente.