Best 760 quotes in «sacred quotes» category

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

It doesn't have to be somber to be sacred.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a proper subject for a jest; and to make this, which is one of the most solemn acts of religion, an occasion of mirth. Yet such is the depravation of our manners at present, that nothing is more frequent than to hear profligate men ridiculing, to the best of their abilities, these sacred pledges of their duty and allegiance; and endeavouring to be witty upon themselves, for daring to prevaricate with God and man.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

It shows that there's a huge consciousness in the world around sacred sites. But I don't know if we've reached the seven percent, if that's what it takes. I just don't know these things. There are definitely some unusual circumstances spreading today that make me feel more and more that we have already made a specific transition.

It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies. Lord, in my views let both united be; I live to pleasure when I live to thee.

Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

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

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.