Sacred Quotes · Page 37

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

— Maria Weston Chapman

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

— Tom Rooney

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

— Farrah Naseem

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

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

— Kenneth Tynan

The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live…

— Joseph Plaskett

To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state…

— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look…

— Jonathan Shapiro

“Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and…

— Duop Chak Wuol

Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the…

— Pope Clement VIII

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is…

— Vincent of Lerins

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with…

— Pablo Picasso

Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential…

— Ravi Zacharias

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our…

— Anonymous

Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can…

— Neil Gaiman

One of the great blessings of the restored gospel is the privilege of entering into sacred covenants with our Father in Heaven-covenants…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He's spent time in jail. He…

— Abigail Disney

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific…

— Walter Lippmann

The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred…

— David Simon

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

— Evgeny Morozov

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred…

— Joseph Heller

Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.

— Cheryl Richardson

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

— Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

— Janet Morris

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

— Allen Ginsberg

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

— Peter Singer

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

— Carolee Schneemann

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

— Iyanla Vanzant

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

— Thomas Campbell

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

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

— James McGreevey

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

— Jacques Ellul

Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

— Rajneesh

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

— Neale Donald Walsch