Sacred Quotes
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From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.
William Holmes McGuffey
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As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
Chogyam Trungpa
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For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well.
B. J. Palmer
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
Seneca the Younger
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The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
William Gurnall
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To Americans religious freedom is sacred.
John Travolta
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When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.
Mike Harding
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
Emile Zola
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
William McKinley
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The very flowers are sacred to the poor.
William Wordsworth
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I wouldn’t change a thing except maybe more air play as I feel my music is sacred and the world needs it now.
Pat Vegas Redbone
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I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.
Albert Camus
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Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.
D. H. Lawrence
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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
Muhammad Ali
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The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.
Rose Schneiderman
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No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
Ann Druyan
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.
Oprah Winfrey
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Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
Isaac Watts
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This ridiculous nonsense that human laws are sacred and that if they are not respected and continued we cannot prosper, is the stupidest and most criminal nightmare of the age. Statutes are the last and greatest curse of man, and when destroyed the world will be free. The statute book is a book of laws by which one class of people can safely trespass upon another. Without this book one person would never dare to trespass upon the rights of another. Every statute law is always used to oppose some natural law.
Albert Parsons
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Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.
Pythagoras
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An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.
E. O. Wilson
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The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.
Stefon Harris
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The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.
Lao Tzu