The Sacred Quotes
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.
Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart.
A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.
It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.
God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.
Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!
Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.
The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable.
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.