Dwelling Place Quotes

• Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

  Martin Luther

  Kings, Heaven, Soul

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.24

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• The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Safe, He Man

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• Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Eye, People, Ears

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• A Christian is the dwelling place of the living God. He created me, he chose me, He came to dwell in me, because he wanted me. Now that you have known how much God is in love with you it is but natural that you spend the rest of your life radiating that love.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Love You, Rest Of Your Life

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• Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threatenings of evil can penetrate into the high tower of God.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Evil, Towers, Bears

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.129, Anamchara Books

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• I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

  John Clare

  Love, Sweet, Heart

  John Clare (2015). “Poems Chiefly from Manuscript”, p.268, The Floating Press

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• Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

  Pope Leo I

  Mother, Peace, Children

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• Greatly ought we to rejoice that God dwells in our soul; and more greatly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwells in God. Our soul is created to be God’s dwelling place, and the dwelling of our souls is God, who is uncreated. It is a great understanding to see and know inwardly that God, who is our Creator, dwells in our soul, and it is a far greater understanding to see and know inwardly that our soul, which is created, dwells in God in substance, of which substance, though God, we are what we are.

  Julian of Norwich

  Understanding, Soul, Substance

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• One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

  John Berger

  Home, Men, House

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.78, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Your mind must be at its best for God before it becomes His dwelling place.

  T. B. Joshua

  Dwelling, Mind

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• There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Jesus, Unique

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• Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

  Edgar Guest

  Family, Sweet, Sleep

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Prayer For The Home”

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• In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Prayer, Thinking

  Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.146, ICS Publications

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• He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How little pride your ancestors will have in you in this world and the next if you do no good! All men are children of Adam whom Allah created by His own Hands, giving him paradise for a dwelling place and letting His angels bow down before him. But how little is the advantage from this since all the vices dwell in mankind and all the wicked impious people are among their number.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Children, Islamic

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• Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!

  James Hogg

  Sweet, Love Is, Heathers

  James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.16

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• You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  William Law (2001). “The Spirit of Love; A Short Confutation of Dr. Warburton's Defence; Of Justification by Faith and Works, Volume 8: Of Justification by Faith and Works”, p.125, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• ... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, House, Preparation

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• Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be set free (cf. Lk. 11:21-22). In every way, therefore, and especially through peace of soul, we must make ourselves a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Taken, Cfs

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• Of all persons the Christian should be best prepared for whatever the New Year brings. He has dealt with life at its source. In Christ he has disposed of a thousand enemies that other men must face alone and unprepared. He can face his tomorrow cheerful and unafraid because yesterday he turned his feet into the ways of peace and today he lives in God. The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, New Year, Men

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• The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

  Tacitus

  Dwelling, Race, Tree

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• Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

  Michael O'Brien

  Fire, Darkness, Solitude

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• Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers.

  Christopher McDowell

  Flower, Tree, Cosmos

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• Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Exit, Entrances

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• Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Culture, Ease, World

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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