Leigh Hunt Quotes

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

God is your safety and your home. You are well embraced." Start living the multi-formity of life from this place. If you can hold on to that, it all becomes one.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

You will find God in the church of your choice.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. I would say that there are many individuals in the Church who appreciate it and who do not have a problem with it. The best place for Piss Christ is in a church.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.

We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man can see and live. The broken and the contrite heart He will not despise. We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God passed by. We must take refuge from God in God.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Is that your hat or are you wearing a cabana?

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.

There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.

Your home is your refuge.