Sanctity Quotes

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I keep my sanctity and respect intact.

— Sana Khan

The sanctity of ballot should not be trampled.

— Nawaz Sharif

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

— George Santayana

I firmly believe in the sanctity of life.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.

— Dan Lipinski

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

— Sam Brownback

“There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.”

— Nadège Richards

“The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary everyday routine.”

— Thomas Merton

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

— Ravi Shankar

a truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of…

— Frank Peretti

Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.

— Ronald Rolheiser

There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the…

— Rahman Baba

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

— Chris Smith

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

— Antonin Scalia

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity…

— Anthony Mary Claret

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I…

— Albert Camus

A degree which is just the paper and does not have the sanctity of law is not the one you want the…

— Smriti Irani

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the…

— Christopher Morley

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that…

— Colin Powell

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the…

— V. S. Naipaul

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that…

— Kim Hyesoon

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it…

— Thomas Merton

It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and…

— Sydney, Lady Morgan

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom…

— Victor Hugo

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so...…

— Tony Blair

“Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night…

— Elora Bishop

Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined…

— Regis Debray

What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love,…

— Mary C. Ames

If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,…

— Gary Bauer

“The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological…

— Catharine Arnold

“Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic truth can fully satisfy. The first is…

— Evelyn Underhill

“Human perception often fails, but the eye of God pierces to the marrow. A human being sees what is on the surface,…

— Scott G. Bruce

“Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say later on,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I…

— Neil Peart

The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is…

— Pope John Paul I

On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime.…

— Billy Graham