Refuge Quotes

To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we been permitted to walk together Sunday afternoons under the wide sky.

With a heart of furious fanciesWhereof I am commander:With a burning spear,And a horse of air,To the wilderness I wander...

Whatever happens during rainy time, you don't need to wish it to stop just you to be protected because some people needs that. Instead, go for a place where you can consider as your refuge.

Nathaniel E. Quimada

Psalm 57:1--Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.

...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

With night's Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.

Adelaide Crapsey

....my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...

The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

Judith Lewis Herman

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart.

Richelle E. Goodrich

A story is a garden you carry in your pocket. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are for pleasure and refuge. Like gardens they are small places in a large world. But, Jinhua, we must never mistake the stories we tell for truth.

Alexandra Curry

The Redeemer is our secured refuge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on; you will have no peace if there is not, somewhere within you, a corner of certainty, calm waters where you can take refuge in sleep.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.

Richelle E. Goodrich