Inner Sanctuary Quotes

#1. All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, Thou art my hiding-place.

James Martineau

#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

#3. Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

George Eliot

#4. We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

Richard J. Foster

#5. 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

#6. And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.

Pope John Paul II

#7. 19 We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.

Anonymous

#8. Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

Ken Follett

#9. During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Honore De Balzac

#10. Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it.

Hermann Hesse

#11. You just wanted to walk in front of me so I'd have to stare at your butt

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.

Marianne Williamson

#13. But when physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. Freedom of inner thought bears sanctuary mind.
Imagination's sight will never bare you blind~

Lisa Moreno

#15. In the storm of emotions, we can create a small, peaceful sanctuary within.

Mary Morrissey

#16. Show me a woman with both feet planted firmly on the ground - and I'll show you a girl who can't get her knickers off.

Kathy Lette

#17. Note that everything that happens, happens justly, and if you observe carefully, you will find it to be so, not only with respect to the continuity of the series of things, but with respect to what is just, as if it were done by one who assigns to each thing its value.

Marcus Aurelius

#18. Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.

Billy Graham

#19. Wherever two human beings are alive, together, and happy, there is the center of the world.

Edward Abbey