Sacredness of life Quotes

12 quotes from 10 authors

When we pause to consider why life feels holy, the words below can sharpen that feeling. Drawing from twelve distinct statements by ten thinkers, this selection highlights how various traditions and personal reflections treat existence as something inviolable and worthy of reverence.

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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

Pema Chodron

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It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty…

Misty Upham

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We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Basil Hume

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When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of…

Phillip Moffitt

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You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the…

Mother Teresa

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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.…

Pema Chodron

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Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only…

Pope John Paul II

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“We have a gift beyond measure, the daily bliss of being alive. Forced by our disease to walk through the valley of…

Judith Hooper

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Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one…

Pope John Paul II

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Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous…

Thomas Merton

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None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we…

Ravi Zacharias

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“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,…

Robert G. Ingersoll

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