Sanctuary Quotes

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  Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

  Hermann Hesse

  Positive, Being Yourself, Time

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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• Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.

  Rumi

  Inspiring, Healing, Doors

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• A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Stress, Home, Storm

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's perils and alarms. It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle and toils of tomorrow. It is the place where love learns its lessons, where life is schooled into discipline and strength, where character is molded.

  J.R. Miller

  Home, Character, Men

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• Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Law, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

  Pico Iyer

  Different, Findings

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• Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Compassion, Focus, Listening

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• A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony

  Anthony Lawlor

  Confusion, Solitude, Unity

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Being Single, Self

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• There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.

  Edward Everett

  Home, Virtue

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.259

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• We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking to enact this wisdom as best we can in our daily lives.

  William Cronon

  Home, Challenges, And Love

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• Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Love, Truth, Finals

  Toyohiko Kagawa (1960). “Kagawa, Japanese prophet: his witness in life and word”

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• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant.

  R. Kelly

  Simple, Self, Voice

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• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  Lady Gaga

  Reborn, My Own, I Can

  "Lady Gaga: Lording it". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be more than sanctuaries; they should also be places where God’s Spirit can dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace dwells

  Thomas S. Monson

  Attitude, Home, Doors

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• Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Church

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• 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

  Memories, Boredom, Mediocrity

  "Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard". Tagline, www.imdb.com. September 18, 2006.

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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 beings.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Light

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• Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Strength, Sympathy

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• One Divine Moment In The Sweet Sanctuary Of this shade We heard the birds The leaves in the breeze And waves as they played And in one divine moment We felt our hearts melt Suddenly we knew How nature Prayed

  Silent lotus

  Sweet, Heart, Bird

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• As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Ideas, Differences

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• I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mediocrity, Honest, Position

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• In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Prayer, Home, Firefighter

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• I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art.

  Louis Kahn

  Art, Inspiration, Light

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• God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Our Thoughts

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