Sacred Quotes - Page 22

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print

As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could not be humanly conceived. Let each of the prophets be looked into: none will be found who does not far exceed human measure. Consequently, those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.

I have to tell everyone everything that's going on. It is different once you're married, because that's sacred.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

Religion is often politics made sacred.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!