Sacred Quotes · Page 26

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

— Muhammad Ali

“NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!”

— Allan Rufus

“Every single person is sacred. Sacred means special, precious, a treasure of true beauty. That means you.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

— Albert Einstein

“A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.”

— Mario Puzo

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

— Gabriela Mistral

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to…

— Horace Mann

“...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.”

— Romain Gary

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone –…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of…

— Peter Høeg

The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven,…

— Lierre Keith

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths…

— Ambrose Bierce

Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

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

— Stephen Fry

There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our…

— Wendell Berry

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful…

— Martin Seligman

The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social…

— Chapman Cohen

People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the…

— Martin Luther

The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of…

— Robert Pollok

“There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth…

— Carolyn Baker

Air, food, shelter, clothing and water are the means of life. Yet, next to the love of God and others, it is…

— John Lars Zwerenz

I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding…

— Wilson Rawls

Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.

— Lawrence Fagg

It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

— A.W. Tozer

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the…

— Michel Hazanavicius

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

— Jesse Jackson

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

— Marianne Williamson

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

— Dawna Markova

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

— Lewis Mumford

If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.

— Joseph Campbell

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be…

— Ann Druyan

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone has a reason why their particular sacred cow is the sacred cow to be honored.

— Jim Norton

Love overcomes, love delights, those who love the Sacred Heart rejoice.

— Bernadette Soubirous

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

— Tom Shadyac

We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged…

— Andrei Sakharov

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

— Michael Chabon

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

— Marian Wright Edelman