Individual Quote by Bernard DeVoto

“Unless a person learns of the sacred intentions in their own life it will be difficult for them to understand the sacred presence in…

— Michael Meade

Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle…

— Mircea Eliade

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with…

— Mircea Eliade

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

— Oprah Winfrey

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

— Homer

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of…

— Gautama Buddha

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.

— William O. Douglas

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he…

— Johannes Tauler

“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive…

— A.W. Tozer

Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

— Shantideva

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

— Mircea Eliade