Sacred Quotes
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Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.
Adolf Hitler
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I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
Joseph Heller
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The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.
Carter Heyward
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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
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The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
Mark Russell
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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
Cesare Pavese
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
Henrik Ibsen
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There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
Eugene Kennedy
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We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.
Satish Kumar
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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
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We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.
Bob Goff
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As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.
Richard Morris
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Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.
Gerald Hausman
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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
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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
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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
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The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
Saul Bellow
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The miserable are sacred.
Seneca the Younger
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The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
Eugene V. Debs