Sacred Quotations | Page 2

We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.

Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.

You have to assume once you go online, anything you put there can be made public. Yet while you're online, you feel like it's a private, sacred space. But you're really broadcasting to the world.

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

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

I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed

I have to tell everyone everything that's going on. It is different once you're married, because that's sacred.

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.

You either believe marriage and human sexuality are sacred, or you do not.

I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.

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.

President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.

My passion for fashion originated in my mother's closet. She was a woman who loved fashion. She enjoyed dressing up a lot, and she had a closet that was like her sacred room that belonged only to her. She wouldn't let us go in and play there very often.

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words.

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

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?

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

We are proud to be the first in the Pensacola area to achieve this distinction. Certification as a Primary Stroke Center recognizes Sacred Heart's commitment to providing outstanding stroke care that can lessen the potential effects of a stroke.

What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.

We knew they have a quality pitcher. I knew they had the potential to be a good team as they played Sacred Heart tough before falling 4-1.

We know how sacred the Oscars are. But we said, what the heck.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

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.

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

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.

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

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

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.

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

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.

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.

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.

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

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

We are all in Christ's energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so that's what I do.

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

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

This was a sacred day ù a very delicate kind of thing. There was that little period where there was a no-fly zone on this subject matter, with a few exceptions. Probably now, enough time has passed and we're getting new perspective on this.

There are more constructive ways to carry on a conversation about the future of the country and the nation's poor than using this sacred occasion.

There is clear and growing evidence of a link between reverence for the land and a breadth of unique and special plants and animals. Sadly, sacred sites are also under threat, and there is an urgent need to help local, indigenous and traditional peoples safeguard their heritage. This can do much to conserve the biological and genetic diversity upon which we all depend.

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

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

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.

Meeting another human is always a sacred event.

This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.

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

There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Many of these places that we visit on this trip are hallowed ground; they are sacred spots. I never call this a tour because a tour implies that we drop you off and pick you up. This is a journey; it's really a journey of the soul.

Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.

Several years ago, we looked back and saw there were going to be some very special anniversaries to plan for. This year will see the 50th anniversary of the Auxiliary and the 40th anniversary of the 1966 purchase of Sacred Heart Hospital from the Sisters of St. Francis in Dubuque.

Set up your home gym so it's your sacred space. Put up motivational quotes on the wall, hang pictures that inspire you. Put a few plants in there and let some natural sunlight in. Make it a place you want to work out in, a place where you want to go to take care of yourself.

My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying... to be present in each moment... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.

No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still

one must worship by ,gifts of food sacred to gods and manes, but one must avoid those who are different.

Now the game has taken me back to Springfield and I am so deeply honored and humbled to be in such a sacred place.