The Sacred Quotes

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage - in every thought and deed.

Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.

The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.

As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now?

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.