Sacred Quotes · Page 19

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

— Marianne Williamson

“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

— N. Scott Momaday

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

— Keri Hulme

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new…

— Aberjhani

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

— Dani Shapiro

“The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect.”

— Tor Udall

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

— Oren Lyons

There are two questions of value in this life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living…

— Johnny Depp<3

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is…

— Joseph Bruchac

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and…

— Mairead Corrigan

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to…

— Abba Eban

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints…

— Anonymous

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country…

— Ari Fleischer

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and…

— Leonard Cohen

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable…

— Mark Epstein

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God.…

— Martin Luther

To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous…

— Abraham Cahan

I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten…

— George Eliot

When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand…

— Mother Teresa

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run…

— Abraham Lincoln

Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of…

— Rick Doblin

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Grace Cavalieri

“...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...”

— John Geddes

“If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.”

— Stephanie Julian

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

— James Hervey

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

— Mervyn Peake

“Trying to build the world’s largest telescope atop the most sacred mountain in Hawaii is a cultural violation to the Hawaiian’s.”

— Steven Magee

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

— Thomas Middleditch

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

— Joseph Epstein

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

— Gene Simmons

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

— Robert Moss

My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

— Alanis Morissette

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

— Anonymous

“...you know I wanted a Madonna, not a whore - I made you sacred offering you my words...”

— John Geddes

People think that in order for nature to be sacred, you have to separate yourself from it.

— Dean Potter

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred…

— Ralph Nader