Refuge Quotes · Page 10

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

— Henry James

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

— William Boyd

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

— Anne Steele

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

— Daniel Webster

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

— Toni Morrison

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

— Lancelot Andrewes

Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

— G. Bruce Boyer

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as…

— Henry David Thoreau

“For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm,…

— Robert J. Morgan

I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We…

— Afeni Shakur

“And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with…

— Yann Martel

“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other…

— Baruch Spinoza

When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will…

— Muriel Barbery

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth…

— William Gaddis

Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer,…

— Elisabeth Elliot

For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime…

— John Calvin

It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to…

— Pope Leo X

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for…

— Vita Sackville-West

Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning…

— Mary Doria Russell

Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge…

— John Ortberg

This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be…

— Boyd K. Packer

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes,…

— Marianne Wiggins

“Only those who are bereaved of all joy in this present world may take refuge in the shadows of the past.”

— Julian May

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

— Marshall McLuhan

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

— Peter York

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

— Mark Twain

The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

— Laozi

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

— Robert Reich

“Books are my refuge. I can crawl into the space between the pages and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Anubhav Mishra

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

— Max Lucado

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

— Helen Keller

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

— Max Anders

“A warm, tight refuge for his saint of a shaft. - from the story "Vessel" by Missy Martinez”

— Asa Akira

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

— Democritus

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if…

— Emily Saliers

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

— John Piper