Sacred Quotes · Page 29

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

— Carter Heyward

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of…

— Henry Lawson

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

— L. Lionel Kendrick

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

— Fred Rogers

We are all in Christs energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you…

— Jon Anderson

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We (Christians) are always in the presence of God. There is never a non-sacred moment! His presence never diminishes. Our awareness of…

— Max Lucado

... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred,…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“The shrine I prayed at not to go to university,” Sand said. “I guess your prayer was answered,” Perrotte said. Sand strongly…

— Merrie Haskell

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by…

— Winona LaDuke

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a…

— Erich Segal

In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something…

— Billy Corgan

It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world…

— Xavier Rudd

We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to…

— Bruce R. McConkie

I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary…

— Joseph Addison

A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the…

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is right—but is it? Our populace can't…

— David Gerrold

In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that…

— Henry B. Eyring

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“Each moment, each person, is sacred and worthy of respect- especially you.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

— Paul Gillmor

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

— Nick Kroll

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

— Wayne Muller

The zone is a place that you rarely visit. It's not some place you go every week. The zone is sacred ground.

— Joe Greene

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the…

— Thomas Keating

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

— Elizabeth McGovern

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

The most sacred thing is our family and our daughter and each other, everything else matters, but it doesn't really matter.

— James Righton

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

— Cynthia Ozick

“If nothing is sacred, then we are all left to crawl through the mud, and there is no meaning to anything.”

— Frances Hardinge

“Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.”

— Christopher Isherwood

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.

— Alan D. Eames

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

— Ambrose Bierce

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

— Christina Baldwin

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

— Friedrich Nietzsche