I would that our farmers when they cut down a forest felt some of that awe which the old Romans did when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
“Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All… — Farrah Naseem Copy Share Image
“In that moment, standing at the edge of the pit, I'm sure Brébeuf was moved by the death rituals of the Wendat… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment.… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle,… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess.… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“There’s a dream I keep having,“ Sheridan whispered into the telephone. “The dream has always been the same—until tonight.” “And what happened… — Phillip White Copy Share Image
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A Child of Happiness always seems like an old soul living in a new body, and her face is very serious until… — Anne Cameron Copy Share Image
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image