Sanctuary Quotes - Page 2

• Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.

  Jean Vanier

  Thinking, Groups, Danger

  Jean Vanier (2003). “Finding Peace”, p.53, A&C Black

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• Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

  Andre Malraux

  Stars, Night, Men

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• The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Wall, Spring, Heart

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• Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Beautiful, Pain, Joy

  "Will this man make you happy?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2008.

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• You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

  Mikky Ekko

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trials come. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mean, Pride, Men

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.126, Anamchara Books

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• The sanctuary of peace dwells within. Seek it out and all things will be added to you. We're coming closer and closer to the time when enough of us will have found inner peace to affect our institutions for the better. And as soon as this happens the institutions will in turn, through example, affect for the better those who are still immature.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inner Peace, Immature, Example

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.102, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Volume, Should, Abraham

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Art, Prayer

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• Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Father, Home

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• In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along

  Billy Joel

  Strong, Heart, Past

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Oct 09, 2013

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• I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

  Bella Heathcote

  Home, Thinking, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Heart, Cities

  'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) bk. 3, ch. 15 (Sydney Carton's thoughts on the scaffold)

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• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Home, Heart, Destiny

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• Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Ice, Sea, Stories

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books

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• Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

  Pope Francis

  Natural, Human Life, Sacredness

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

  Allison Mackie

  Ideas, Poetry, Gathering

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• In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

  Van Morrison

  Religious, Tree, Religion

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• A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Heart, Men

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• Sanctuaries are magical places - dare I say holy?

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Holy, Dare, Magical Places

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• To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Finding Love, Mystery, Mystery Of God

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary—something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. For me it's not so much about the health benefits. Those are great, but I believe that the best thing about running is the joy it brings to life.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Believe, Feel Good

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• 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.

  Paul Auster

  Real, Moon, Library

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.164, Penguin

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• My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fear, Mind, Eragon

  "Eragon (Inheritance Cycle, Book 1)". Book by Christopher Paolini, 2002.

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