#refuge

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first. ↗

— Wayne Cordeiro

#jesus-christ #pastor #pastoral #pastoral-ministry #refuge

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#different #different places #displacement #end #forced

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#first #incompetent #lawyers #refuge

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#carrying #devastated #eternity #i #idea

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#avoid #been #claim #claiming #consensus

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#given #going #i #i think #idiotic

We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#balkans #coming #elsewhere #europe #greece

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#approaches #been #between #building #complex

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#arctic national wildlife refuge #cannot #conscience #drilling #final

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#religion #scoundrels