The Sacred Quotes

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God

Love wins. Sleep is a healer. Loved ones are sacred.

An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.

Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

The words secret and sacred are siblings.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

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

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them

Sacred texts always offend reason.

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.

Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

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

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