Refuge Quotes

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

~ John Geddes

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

~ Adelaide Crapsey

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

~ Diana Gabaldon

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.

~ Ronie Kendig

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

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

~ Tom O'bedlam

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.

~ Susan Vreeland

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

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

~ Oscar Wilde

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

~ Samuel Johnson