Sacred Quotes - Page 11

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

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.

Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

There is a sacredness in tears

The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.

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.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be So happy.

It can be frustrating to see how society has taken the sacred out of everything.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.

Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred and be respected. This belief forms the basis of the doctrine of ahimsa, which has been translated into English variously as "reverence for life," "nonviolence," and "dynamic compassion."

I have achieved the 'sacred' pilgrimage to Ktaadn MT - exceeding all my expectations so far that I am sort of helpless with words. I feel as if I have seen God for the first time, and find him so nonchalantly solemn.

Work to me is a sacred thing.

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.