The Sacred Quotes

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?

One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive.

I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

There is a remote tribe that worships the number zero. Is nothing sacred?

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?