These sane quotes will inspire you. Sanctuary, a holy or sacred place or a place that provides safety or protection to a wildlife sanctuary.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging sane quotes, sane sayings, and sane proverbs.
Best Sanctuary Quotes
- “Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself” ~ Hermann Hesse
- “Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.” ~ Rumi
- “A home is a kingdom of it’s own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life’s storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
- “A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world’s perils and alarms. It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle and toils of tomorrow. It is the place where love learns its lessons, where life is schooled into discipline and strength, where character is molded.” ~ J.R. Miller
- “A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony” ~ Anthony Lawlor
- “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” ~ Hermann Hesse
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“Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.” ~ Pico Iyer
- “Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.” ~ Toyohiko Kagawa
- “We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking to enact this wisdom as best we can in our daily lives.” ~ William Cronon
- “Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant.” ~ R. Kelly
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“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be more than sanctuaries; they should also be places where God’s Spirit can dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace dwells” ~ Thomas S. Monson
- “Giving to others selflessly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.” ~ Laozi
- “Worshipers never leave church…we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I’ve escaped the day when I get home.” ~ Bella Heathcote
- “I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.” ~ Lady Gaga
- “Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.” ~ Jean Vanier
- “In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
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“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.” ~ Christopher Paolini
- “Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
- “Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it’s all good.” ~ Kobe Bryant
- “Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.” ~ Jeremy Bentham
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“A man’s heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.” ~ Rebecca Solnit
- “You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn’t feel like it’s being tainted by everybody’s opinions and other people’s money. I think I’m kind of homesick right now.” ~ Mikky Ekko
- “The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.” ~ St. Catherine of Siena
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“Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.” ~ Thomas S. Monson
- “Wherever…thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.” ~ Bernard of Clairvaux
- “One Divine Moment In The Sweet Sanctuary Of this shade We heard the birds The leaves in the breeze And waves as they played And in one divine moment We felt our hearts melt Suddenly we knew How nature Prayed” ~ Silent lotus , Bird sanctuary quotes
- “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“Music is a place to take refuge. It’s a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It’s innocent and it’s a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.” ~ Lisa Gerrard
- “We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.” ~ Allison Mackie
- “As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.” ~ Audre Lorde
- “The sanctuary of peace dwells within. Seek it out and all things will be added to you. We’re coming closer and closer to the time when enough of us will have found inner peace to affect our institutions for the better. And as soon as this happens the institutions will in turn, through example, affect for the better those who are still immature.” ~ Peace Pilgrim
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“In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along” ~ Billy Joel
- “In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.” ~ Van Morrison
- “God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” ~ Charles Dickens
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“To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.” ~ Thomas Merton
- “Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.” ~ Andre Malraux
- “Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death” ~ Pope Francis
- “In the secret of God’s tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trials come. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms.” ~ Hannah Whitall Smith
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“I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.” ~ A. J. Jacobs
- “Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.” ~ Thomas Raymond Kelly
- “Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary—something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. For me it’s not so much about the health benefits. Those are great, but I believe that the best thing about running is the joy it brings to life.” ~ Kara Goucher
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“A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.” ~ Helmut Thielicke
- “I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man’s guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
- “I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.”” ~ Afeni Shakur
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“Sanctuaries are magical places – dare I say holy?” ~ Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
- “I come, O Lord, unto Thy sanctuary to see the life and food of my soul. As I hope in Thee, O Lord, inspire me with that confidence which brings me to Thy holy mountain. Permit me, Divine Jesus, to come closer to Thee, that my whole soul may do homage to the greatness of Thy majesty; that my heart, with its tenderest affections, may acknowledge Thine infinite love; that my memory may dwell on the admirable mysteries here renewed every day, and that the sacrifice of my whole being may accompany Thine.” ~ Clare of Assisi
- “If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can’t be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America’s true God.” ~ Nancy Gibbs
- “God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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“I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light – an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art.” ~ Louis Kahn
- “[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. “Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end” (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.” ~ John Flavel
- “Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard.” ~ Richard Salter Storrs , Nature sanctuary quotes
- “We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat – or neglect – the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.” ~ Ann Voskamp
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“Libraries aren’t in the real world, after all. They’re places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.” ~ Paul Auster
- “In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother … a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.” ~ Aldo Leopold , Wildlife sanctuary quotes
- “Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions–or, at least, will be second to none–and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.” ~ Sophie Swetchine
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“God’s mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.” ~ Edward Reynolds
- “I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, “Thou art my hiding-place.” ~ James Martineau
