Quotes about Escape

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

For knitting composed the mind; knitting served the necessary means of evasion; knitting constituted not only an escape, but a tangible protection, from husbands.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

There's times in my life when music has been an escape, the only thing that worked when everything else seemed broken, but at that moment I had nothing to escape from.

I just want to go to Disneyland. I need that a lot, to just let everything go, go on some roller coasters and have fun.

Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason.

Martin Luther offers a powerful reminder in our temptation to go at life on our own: The world is insane. It tries to get rid of its insanity by the use of wisdom and reason; and it looks for many ways and means, for all sorts of help and advice on how to escape this distress.

The ways of reading Revelation that spend time speculating about the questions When will all this happen? and Who is the antichrist? fail the church in discipleship. Instead of a discipleship that teaches us to discern Babylon among us and shows us how to live in Babylon as dissidents instead of conformists, these speculative questions teach Christians how to wait for the escape from Babylon.

Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

It is easier to stay out than to get out.