Sanctuary Quotes

• In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Strong

• I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • People
  • World
  • Bathroom

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

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reborn
  • Sanctuary

• I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Reading
  • Crazy
  • Husband

• Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Truth
  • Church
  • Safe

• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Soul
  • Sanctuary
  • Old Woman

• Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

  

  Augusta Jane Evans
  • Heart
  • Shadow
  • Freeze

• The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

  

  David McCord
  • Comfort
  • Rooms
  • Browser

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

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Self
  • Sanctuary

• First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Firsts
  • Educated
  • Higher

• Talented or not, I would never assign anyone as young as you two to oversee any preserve, let alone a dragon sanctuary, except as a last resort.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Young
  • Talented
  • Dragon

• Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Soul
  • Marriage
  • Apostasy

• Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Thoughts

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

  

  Rumi
  • Door
  • Inside
  • Entrance

• God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

  

  Edward Reynolds
  • Sin
  • Protect
  • God's Mercy

• It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

  

  Michelle Malkin
  • Politics
  • Actions
  • Nations

• 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
  • Remember
  • Environment
  • Challenges

• Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.

  

  Rumi
  • Door
  • Prison
  • Inside

• Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Mind
  • Prison
  • Sanctuary

• Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home.

  

  Corinne Bailey Rae
  • Home
  • Should
  • Relax

• Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary—something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. For me it's not so much about the health benefits. Those are great, but I believe that the best thing about running is the joy it brings to life.

  

  Kara Goucher
  • Believe
  • Running
  • Benefits