Quotes about Place
Youth must its ignorant impulse lend-- Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish and are fought by boys
— Herman Melville
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
— Confucius
The kingdom is not some place that our souls are taken away to when we die. It is, instead, an order that comes to earth--right here among us who call ourselves daughters and sons of God.
— Shane Claiborne
my heart felt like a soft, damaged place in my chest, like a bruise on a peach.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
— Amy Carmichael
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.
— Joseph Brodsky
All theology is rooted in geography.
— Eugene Peterson
God's providence is never characterized in broad generalities or pious abstractions but always in the particular, in the personal, in the recognition of grace in an unlikely time, at an unlikely place. Who could have anticipated ravens?
— Eugene Peterson
America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'.
— Ezra Taft Benson
That gate— that place of praise in the midst of conflict— is where His presence rests, where the King Himself dwells. The gate is formed when we move above human explanation and into a place of trust.
— Bill Johnson
A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation." Sabbaths 1999 IV
— Wendell Berry
Nothing haunts us more than our search for, finally, a sense of place. As it turns out, true belonging is found only in the sovereign palm of God. There alone we find our place, even amid the seasons of moving, planting, uprooting, and replanting. It's only when we find our place in Him that we find rest. David said it with beautiful simplicity: I am at rest in God alone. PSALM 62:1, CSB
— Beth Moore