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No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made -- I and the Lord with whom I have made them -- unless I choose to reveal them. If I do not, then they are secret and sacred no matter what others may say or do. Anyone who would reveal these things has not understood them, and therefore that person has not given them away. You cannot reveal what you do not know!

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Other than our love our labor is one of the most sacred gifts we can give. When your labor is your love, life is sacred. Love what you do or change.

O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and abbeys on their sacred sites, the Vatican had been wont to “Christianize” ancient, pagan celebrations in an if-you-can’t-beat-them-and-don’t-wantto- join-them-rename-it-and-pretend-it-was-yours-all-along campaign.

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

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.

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.