Dwelling Quotes

What a loving God we serve! Not only has He prepared a heavenly dwelling for us, but His angels also accompany us as we transition from this world to the next.

Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right.

Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.

No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

By dwelling on negativity, we prevent ourselves from living in the simple state of well-being.

Do you get a nice monthly check from the government for dwelling on things?

It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after

I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.

All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

- "Control what an interesting word for you to be dwelling on" - "I have other words" I scream the F-Word in my head, over and over again.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

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?

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...

My past made me a stronger and wiser person because I learned from its valuable lessons without dwelling on regrets and excuses.