Dwelling Place Quotes - Page 3

• Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.

  Abdullah, Son of Masud

  Wisdom, Regret, Islamic

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• ...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable dwelling place (cf. Jn. 14:2) will be ours to enjoy. For this is what our sainted teacher said in his famous philosophical aphorism: 'Then we shall know as we are known' (I Cor. 13:12), when we mingle our god-formed mind and divine reason to what is properly its own and the image returns to the archetype for which it now longs.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Teacher, Philosophical

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• I wonder about the trees.
  Why do we wish to bear
  Forever the noise of these
  More than another noise
  So close to our dwelling place?

  Robert Frost

  Music, Tree, Forever

  Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Community, Criminals, Would Be

  "Frank v. Maryland, 359 U.S. 360". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 4, 1959.

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• But remember, for all your adult life you'll be a woman. And how you live your life as a woman, all by yourself before God, is what makes the real you. Nothing on the exterior can touch or change that precious inner sanctuary -- your heart, His dwelling place -- unless you let it. And God, who loves you very much, has tailor made all your outer life -- your circumstances, your relationships -- to pressure you into becoming that beautiful woman He's planned for you to be.

  Anne Ortlund

  Beautiful, Real, Love You

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• I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
  For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
  As the yet unborn,
  Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual,
  But still not close enough.

  Paul Klee

  Death, Heart, Usual

  Paul Klee (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Paul Klee (Illustrated)”, p.116, Delphi Classics

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• Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air unbreathable, disturbed the hydro-geological and atmospheric systems, turned luxuriant areas into deserts and undertaken forms of unrestrained industrialization, degrading that 'flower bed'-which is the earth, our dwelling place.

  Pope John Paul II

  Flower, Men, Dwelling

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• There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.

  James A. Baldwin

  Children, Men, Artist

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• Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Spiritual, Men, Order

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