Sacred Quotes · Page 24

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

— Carl Sagan

“Insurrection is the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties.”

— Anonymous

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

— John Lewis

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

— Eckhart Tolle

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

— Karl Marx

The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle…

— Laozi

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute…

— Hafez

Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in…

— Linda K. Burton

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

— Michael Jeffery

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference…

— Dave Brubeck

So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are…

— Thomas Noon Talfourd

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there…

— Marianne Williamson

Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres…

— Caitlin Flanagan

Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought…

— Annie Lobert

State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and…

— Adolf Hitler

Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to…

— Judy Woodruff

The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and…

— Walter Lippmann

We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained…

— Naomi Wolf

The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the…

— William Holmes McGuffey

I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving…

— Diane Ackerman

The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common

— John Denver

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

— Alexander Pope

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

— Barbara De Angelis

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

— Tom Rooney

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

— Maria Weston Chapman

“But that did not stop her heart from shattering into countless pieces or her soul from shredding into slivers.”

— Farrah Naseem

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea…

— Woodrow Wilson

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

— Horace Greeley

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or…

— Isaac Watts

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

— Jacques Ellul

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

— James McGreevey

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

— Salman Rushdie

The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.

— Thomas Campbell

Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and…

— Iyanla Vanzant