The Sacred Quotes

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

I swear to you on any kind of sacred whateverthefuck you favor: if I live through this I will absolutely start taking your advice." "That'll look nice on your headstone.

The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.

Once you start to question your life you get to a higher level of awareness. It's like turning a light on-voila you see you have choices and choices are sacred.

You are doing something very sacred here, something very daring, during your life upon the earth. You are defining yourself, and then creating yourself anew, in each golden moment of now.

This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you.

The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs.

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

As servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is our sacred responsibility to teach His standard of morality, which is the same for all of His children.

Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands."

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows?

Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.

Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

The miserable are sacred.

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.

When you consider Life as sacred,Nature waits on you

Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.