Refuge Quotes

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

...the haunted always take refuge in stillness.

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater - It will be the last refuge of pure aura and power on our planet, the oceans' depths.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

Your home is your refuge.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.

Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.