Sacredness Quotes
73 quotes by 56 authors
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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. We tend to…
— Pema Chodron
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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
— Edvard Munch
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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 understand that God…
— Ravi Zacharias
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But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness…
— Jonathan Haidt
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized society, the living…
— Pope John Paul II
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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded…
— Immanuel Kant
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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 appropriate attitude.
— Pope John Paul II
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We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.
— Kofi Annan
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And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more…
— Ronald Reagan
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Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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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 ever has the…
— Pope John Paul II
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Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
— Jonathan Haidt
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Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
— Dean Ornish
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In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
— Jim Harrison
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
— Dogen
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The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment is…
— Neil Postman
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That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
— Paul Tsongas
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Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
— S.M. Stirling
Who Wrote These Sacredness Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 73 Sacredness Quotes, led by these top contributors: