Definition of Sanctuary

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Sanctuary

A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.

The most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and he only once a year, to intercede for the people; also, the most sacred part of the tabernacle; also, the temple at Jerusalem.

The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed.

A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed; a church, temple, or other place of worship.

A sacred and inviolable asylum; a place of refuge and protection; shelter; refuge; protection.

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Sanctuary Quotations

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

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
Bryant H. McGill

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
Daniel Johns

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
Dan Lipinski

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.
Robert Toombs

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
Julius Wellhausen

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
Hugo Black

For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.
Judge Reinhold

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.
Edward Everett

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Julie Burchill

Sanctuary Translations

sanctuary in German is Heiligtum, Heiligtum, Heiligtums
sanctuary in Italian is santuario
sanctuary in Spanish is santuario
sanctuary in Swedish is helgedom

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