Sacred Quotes

• Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Firsts
  • Form

• In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Attention
  • Prayer
  • Expression

• A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

  

  Deena Metzger
  • Knowledge
  • Achieve
  • Experiences

• For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Art
  • Knows
  • Records

• I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Sacred
  • Duties

• Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

  

  Gerald Hausman
  • Sacred
  • Mythology
  • Humankind

• When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Love
  • Spirit

• Loyalty is something you should always hold sacred in your heart.

  

  Daunte Culpepper
  • Always
  • Something
  • Loyalty

• Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Sacred
  • Authentic

• I will never let the vestal fire go out in my innermost recesses’: people feel that vestal fire and they feel that its possessor is sacred: they will not harm him. He walks unharmed amongst people reputed savage because they honor what is most good in man.

  

  Christina Stead
  • People
  • Feel
  • Fire

• It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Better
  • Sacred
  • Commercial

• As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Reason
  • Afraid
  • Sacred

• Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.

  

  Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Writers
  • Status
  • Russian

• There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Silence
  • Sacred
  • Responses

• The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Life
  • Human
  • Sacred

• Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Sacred

• The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole? Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself... Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • World
  • Love
  • Lord

• Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Text

• The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Rights
  • Sacred

• The miserable are sacred.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Miserable
  • Sacred

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