Quotes About Refuge

#1. Visions of paradise. That was exactly what had led him down into hell, into endless arguments with his family, into such a powerful feeling of guilt that he had felt incapable of doing anything and had finally sought refuge in another world.

Paulo Coelho

#2. Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

Bryant McGill

#3. You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there.

Nicole Mones

#4. Throughout the history of humanity, only one refuge kept books safe from war and conflagration: the walking library, an idea that occurred to the grand vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassem Ismael, at the end of the tenth century. This

Eduardo Galeano

#5. A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Helen Keller

#6. When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

Mason Cooley

#7. Ambition is the last refuge of the failure

Oscar Wilde

#8. The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Robert Dold

#9. I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment.

Henry Rollins

#10. Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

Pope John Paul II

#11. PSA9.9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Anonymous

#12. Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

Martin Luther

#13. Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

Lisa Gerrard

#14. Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

Peg Kehret

#15. At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.

Myla Goldberg

#16. Be a light unto yourself; betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

Buddha Shakyamuni

#17. Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

Dean Koontz

#18. The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. There was a time when academia was society's refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers. As for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical: it would seem society now has no place for them at all.

David Graeber

#20. His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

Iain Pears

#21. Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

Antonio Damasio

#22. Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

Lois Capps

#23. Vulgar language," Chan said ... "Always the first and last refuge of the man with nothing to say.

Michael Chabon

#24. Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

Rudolf Arnheim

#25. It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.

Robert Dold

#26. All the light of the day, fleeing the earth, seemed for one brief moment to take refuge in the sky; pink clouds spiralled round the full moon that was as green as pistachio sorbet and as clear as glass; it was reflected in the lake.

Irene Nemirovsky

#27. Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

#28. You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

Guillaume Musso

#29. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1

Dee Henderson

#30. There is no external refuge." Meaning, you cannot look into the outer world to feel safe, to feel at peace. You cannot look without for understanding, or for justice. You must look within. I

Lisa Unger

#31. Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

Mason Cooley

#33. If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

St. Jerome

#34. The nightmares were so devastating that as a self-defense mechanism his brain did all it could to keep him awake at night. Instead of falling asleep, Hunter read ferociously. Books became his refuge, his castle. A safe place where the ghastly nightmares couldn't breach the gates.

Chris Carter

#35. The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.

Keith Donohue

#36. Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

Kim Harrison

#37. We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

Tara Brach

#38. The smell of books soothed his soul like nothing else could. The store was his haven, his refuge, and most importantly, it was safe. Here he could go anywhere in the world, explore the seas, scale mountains, travel through time and space or fall in love.

Sheri Lyn

#39. This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.

Heather Demetrios

#40. My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

Fernando Pessoa

#41. The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

Dick Durbin

#42. In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness.

Tara Brach

#43. Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

Saint John Chrysostom

#44. I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

Raymond Depardon

#45. The foreground in a picture is always unattractive ... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#46. Whoever wishes to remember must not stay in one place, waiting for the memories to come of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the immense world, and it takes voyaging to find them and make them leave their refuge.

Milan Kundera

#47. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

#48. I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.

Afeni Shakur

#49. Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.

Gautama Buddha

#50. If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

Matthew Arnold

#51. Your breaking point will be a bloody refuge, not a clean slate.

Christina Hopp

#52. Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated.

Zygmunt Bauman

#53. The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

Charles Baudelaire

#54. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

Dan Lipinski

#55. Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Neal Boortz

#56. Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Walter Pater

#57. My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.

Henry Martyn

#58. I sighed, then hated myself for sighing, such an impotent and ultimately dishonest thing to do, the refuge of those lacking the courage to articulate their displeasure.

Ron Currie Jr.

#59. Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics, cranks, and charlatans.

Michio Kaku

#60. When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#61. Fidel Castro's justice, while seeking refuge with his rebel troops in the Sierra Maestra mountains, was harsh and the penalty for violating some of his rules was death." See page 286, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

Hank Bracker

#62. Our feelings are formations, impermanent and without substance. We learn not to identify with ourselves with our feelings, not to consider them as a self, not to seek refuge in them, not to die because of them.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#63. Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves.

Will Schwalbe

#64. Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Oscar Wilde

#65. Dear refuge of my weary soul,
On thee, when sorrows rise,
On thee, when waves of trouble roll,
My fainting hope relies.

Anne Steele

#66. We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#67. In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine, actually - so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.

Elizabeth Strout

#68. Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Michael Bloomberg

#69. Psalm 57:1
Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.

Ronie Kendig

#70. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Oscar Wilde

#71. It is true, law and war are much alike. War is but a more public kind of lawing; and law is but a more private kind of waring; and both of them remedies of the last refuge.

Daniel Cawdrey

#72. Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

John Dryden

#73. To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.

John Le Carre

#74. Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

Marshall McLuhan

#75. Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.

Michael Dirda

#76. Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man,

Mario Puzo

#77. Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.

Elisabeth Elliot

#78. Wipe thine ass with What is Written and grin like a ninny at what is Spoken. Take thine refuge with thine wine in the Nothing behind Everything, as you hurry along the Path.

Malaclypse The Younger

#79. When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.

Josemaria Escriva

#80. What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?

Noorilhuda

#81. There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

Agathon

#82. A writer's refuge is imagination and the possibilities it provides.

Mark Rubinstein

#83. The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

Florence Nightingale

#84. Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

Saint Ambrose

#85. Music is my life. Music runs through my veins. Music inspires me. Music is a part of me. Music is all around us. Music soothes me. Music gives me hope when I lose faith. Music comforts me. Music is my refuge.

Demi Lovato

#86. No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

Jose Rizal

#87. I hurried through the drizzle back to the office, looking forward to the refuge of my book. Like so many books before, it would take me into another world. I needed that.

Heather Haven

#88. I learned to take refuge in wherever the light is, because anything else is darkness that can pull you down deep.

Helen Klein Ross

#89. People are lucky because they have shelters, they have refuges, they have sanctuaries and they have heavens! And what are they? Nature is a refuge; music is a shelter; literature is a sanctuary and art is a heaven! Whenever you need them you can take refuge in them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#90. The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

Otto Weininger

#91. Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.

Wright Morris

#92. 5 t Every word of God proves true; he is u a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Anonymous

#93. 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Anonymous

#94. In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

Roger Scruton

#95. Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

Ellen Meloy

#96. 1God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2Therefore we will not fear,

Anonymous

#97. 11 But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you. 12 Surely, LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

Anonymous

#98. I take refuge in my books.

Julia Ward Howe

#99. Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

Henry Wriston

#100. I love you, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn

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