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There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.  To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

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

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

The time has come to put into practice the charity taught by the masters and priests of all times. The words said between the pigeons' cooing under the sacred porticos of all the temples should now turn into concrete reality.

The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

The words secret and sacred are siblings.

This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

The zone is a place that you rarely visit. It's not some place you go every week. The zone is sacred ground.

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

Today, what is important for us is to realize that the old sacred ways are correct, and that if we do not follow them we will be lost and without a guide.

Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.

Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.

Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry.

War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.