Sanctuary Quotes
204 quotes by 176 authors
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
— Julie Burchill
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There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.
— Edward Everett
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.
— Mitt Romney
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Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all…
— Laozi
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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind…
— H. L. Mencken
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The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,…
— Thomas Paine
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Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.
— Kobe Bryant
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The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return…
— Pat Conroy
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In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.
— Richard J. Foster
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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but…
— Claude Bernard
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When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.
— Janet Morris
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I come, O Lord, unto Thy sanctuary to see the life and food of my soul. As I hope in Thee, O Lord, inspire me…
— Clare of Assisi
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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…
— Pope John Paul II
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Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.
— Janet Morris
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There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help…
— Cyril Connolly
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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all…
— Alice Walker
Who Wrote These Sanctuary Quotes
176 authors contributed a total of 204 Sanctuary Quotes, led by these top contributors: