Sacred Quotes - Page 7

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well.

Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

Attention: a sacred energy coming into me. Be sensitive to it. Recognize again and again that it is there

The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.

Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.

To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.