Sacred Quotes · Page 25

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

— Ward McAllister

Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.

— Catherine Ponder

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

— Mabel Osgood Wright

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

— Russell M. Nelson

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

— Steve King

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

— African Spir

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

— Wayne Teasdale

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

— Thomas Yellowtail

The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to…

— Hafez

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for…

— Ambrose

The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond…

— David Josiah Brewer

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations…

— Marilyn French

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the…

— Ambrose Bierce

[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with…

— John Calvin

So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred…

— Leo Tolstoy

Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble…

— Marge Piercy

“To me, the word wisdom means ancient knowledge. It’s the kind of knowledge you not only see but feel when you look…

— Molly Friedenfeld

“This singular belief that God exists beyond or outside the Earth...shaped a paradigm that led to a disconnection between people and all…

— Catriona MacGregor

Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any…

— Calvin Coolidge

Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with…

— B. C. Forbes

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.

— Phyllis Chesler

Remember that life is much too sacred to be wasted on people who have no desire to help anyone but their own…

— Anonymous

You either believe marriage and human sexuality are sacred, or you do not.

— Kirk Cameron

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

— Ridley Scott

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

— Anthony Burgess

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

— Anonymous

The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.

— Jonathan Miles

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

— Moliere

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

— Neville Marriner

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

— Anatole France

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

— Thomas Jefferson

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

— Michael Connelly

We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

— Bob Goff

Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may…

— Khalil Gibran

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.”

— Carolyn Baker