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Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Every old poem is sacred.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn diversity, but it eagerly and willingly grants to each nation the right to keep and preserve the legitimate customs and traditions of its forbears.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?

Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.

Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

I am sacred when you love me. I am your sanctuary, you are mine.

How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.

If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?