Sacredness Quotes

73 quotes by 56 authors

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
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church. — Edvard Munch
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
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
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war. — Kofi Annan
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
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
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
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. — Jonathan Haidt
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. — Dean Ornish
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
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane. — Dogen
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
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. — Paul Tsongas
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: