Sacred Quotes - Page 20

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.

Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history. ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs. ... let me make something clear.

This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.

Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.