“Nationalism is an animal trait, not a human one - sacredness is a secular practice, not sectarian - culture is an act… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“We have a gift beyond measure, the daily bliss of being alive. Forced by our disease to walk through the valley of… — Judith Hooper Copy Share Image
Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt,… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness - and we… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds, while you were completely present, was that beauty or that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“There is a sacredness in tears…They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.” — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom. — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Don't live in the past - you've already been there. And don't live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Love is sacred. Beauty is sacred. Flowers are sacred. Birds are sacred. And sacredness brings the perfume of love and compassion. Therefore… — Vasant Lad Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
![“I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d7/barack-obama-17_community_i-remember-reading-studs-terkel-s-workin_3056170.jpg)
