Sacred Quotes

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

Families are the Lord's workshop on earth to help us learn and live the gospel. We come into our families with a sacred duty to help strengthen each other spiritually.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you.

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

Energy doesn't come to us so much from the things around us-although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and sacred sites. Sacred energy comes from our connection to the divine inside us.

In this new world, this day and forever, then, we are not only Thebans - we are all Stepsons. We are all one Sacred Band. If you will have us. And mine will fight by yours, henceforth, as brothers.

Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

Even in the busiest lives, there is room for a sacred pause. Between actions, pause and remember who you are.

To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no cant. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right.

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.

It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and the sacred red fern.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour