Sacred famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
-- A. Powell Davies -
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
-- Abraham Maslow -
If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
-- Abraham Verghese -
The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
-- Agnes Repplier -
My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred
-- Alanis Morissette -
What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour
-- Alanis Morissette -
I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.
-- Albert Camus -
Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
-- Albert Einstein -
The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
-- Albert Einstein -
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
-- Albert Einstein -
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
-- Alexander Pope -
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
-- Alexander Pope -
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
-- Anais Nin -
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
-- Anatole France -
We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged....
-- Andrei Sakharov -
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
-- Anita Diament -
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
-- Ann Druyan -
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
-- Ann Druyan -
Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.
-- Anodea Judith -
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.
-- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy -
In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
-- Auguste Rodin -
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
-- Augustus De Morgan -
For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well.
-- B. J. Palmer -
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .
-- Barbara De Angelis -
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
-- Ben Lindsey -
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.
-- Benjamin Moser -
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.
-- Bhagawan Nityananda -
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
-- Black Elk -
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
-- Black Elk -
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
-- Black Elk -
It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.
-- Bob Dylan -
We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.
-- Bob Goff -
Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver.
-- Bonnie D. Parkin -
The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
-- Buzz Bissinger -
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.
-- Carl E. Olson -
The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.
-- Carl Sagan -
Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.
-- Carolee Schneemann -
The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.
-- Carter Heyward -
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.
-- Carter Heyward -
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.
-- Caspar David Friedrich -
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
-- Cesare Pavese -
Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.
-- Charlene Spretnak -
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.
-- Charles Buck -
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.
-- Charles Churchill -
Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.
-- Charles Frazier -
Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.
-- Charles Godfrey Leland -
I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
-- Chief Seattle -
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.
-- Clay Shirky -
Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.
-- Clive Barker -
Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
-- Colin S. Smith -
Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.
-- Confucius -
What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.
-- Conrad Hyers -
When we deal with the name and reputation of another we deal with something sacred in the sight of the Lord.
-- Cree-L Kofford -
After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.
-- D. A. Pennebaker -
If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.
-- Daniel Taylor -
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
-- David Antin -
And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.
-- David Dark -
If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.
-- David Livingstone -
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
-- David McCullough -
The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred and worthy of your love, respect and intention. Take good care of it and nourish it with the most healing, life-sustaining foods, experiences, and sensory impressions.
-- David Simon -
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.
-- Deborah King -
It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred
-- Demi Lovato -
Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.
-- Deva Premal -
One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand -
Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.
-- Don Herold -
Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.
-- E. O. Wilson -
To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
-- Edward Caswall -
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
-- Edward de Bono -
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.
-- Edward Ruscha -
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.
-- Edward T. Hall
