Sacred Quotes - Page 17

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.

Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred, into the One formless, unmanifested Life. This is why death is such an incredible opportunity. There is no transformation of human consciousness without the dissolving that death brings.

Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

I'm not questioning that Donald Trump won the election. But there's nothing more sacred than our democratic process in the United States. And we have got to make sure that - put aside partisan politics and make sure that we're getting to the bottom of all of this.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.