89 Quotes About Refuge

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

Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.

What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

Such a nation (living godly) will dwell in refuge. Meaning secured, protected, safe etc.

True refuge demands a complete and utter trust fall into the arms of reality. (p. 56)

Most people have forgotten nowadays what a house can mean, though some of us have come to realize it as never before. It is a kingdom of its own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life’s storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

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

Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

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