For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
You can walk with the Shintoist through his sacred groves, or chant an affirmation with the Hindu on the banks of the… — James Marcus Bach Copy Share Image
To me, we are in the midst of such broad-scale destruction, both psychically and physically, that the only thing that can threaten… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Solitude can become your most meaningful companion and it can assist you in being a more giving person in your spiritual partnerships.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
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Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect… — Bindi Irwin Copy Share Image
In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that… — Adam Leipzig Copy Share Image
Nobody knows but you what it is that’s sacred to you as far as what you want to manifest in your life.… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
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All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation.… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians,… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise… — Ronald L. Buckwalter Copy Share Image
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A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
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People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took… — Ellen Wittlinger Copy Share Image
An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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