Refuge Quotes
It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.
Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.
Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.
Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?
Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.
Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.'
There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.