Sacred Quotes - Page 3

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now?

By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

Love is a sacred silence.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

The family is more sacred than the state.

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.

Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.