The Sacred Quotes

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

All true work is sacred.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

As a result of the sacred ordinances performed in the holy house of God, no light need be permanently extinguished, no voice permanently stilled, no place in our heart permanently left vacant.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.

All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path.

Without a sacred center, no one knows right from wrong.

The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul.

Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.

But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.

Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents.

You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.