Sacred Quotes - Page 8

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

Today, what is important for us is to realize that the old sacred ways are correct, and that if we do not follow them we will be lost and without a guide.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies. Lord, in my views let both united be; I live to pleasure when I live to thee.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

My body is beautiful and sacred, and I'm going to celebrate it.

The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.

Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred books, or because it has been believed by many, or because it has been handed down by your ancestors. Accept and live only according to what will enable you to see truth face to face.

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.

The kitchen is a sacred space.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Laughter - that is something very sacred especially for us Indians.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

There are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.