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The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim it without any whittling-down, just as Christ revealed it, and no consideration of time or circumstance can lessen the strictness of this obligation.

The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs.

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

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

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 are two worlds: the world where nothing is sacred except money, an the other world, where everything is sacred.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

There is a remote tribe that worships the number zero. Is nothing sacred?

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

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

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.

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

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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

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.

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

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

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

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 trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

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.