Sacred Quotes - Page 15

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

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.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

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.

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God