Top 1200 Sacred Fire Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.

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

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

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

Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a religion for man. Upon this the hope of the race hangs. From the very first, it took its position, as the pillar of fire, to lead the race onward. The intelligence and power of the race are with those who have embraced it; and now, if this, instead of proving indeed a pillar of fire from God, should be found but a delusive meteor, then nothing will be left to the race but to go back to a darkness that may be felt, and to a worse than Egyptian bondage.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

The most sacred thing you can get is time. That's all people want on their death bed; that's what it's all about.

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

As long as I am in the Congress, I will continue to fight for and defend our sacred values.

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

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

Each of us seeks peace of mind, but we sometimes fear that it means giving up excitement and ecstasy. Peace sounds like contentment, which sounds like settling, letting the fire go out. Actually, peace of mind allows you to go more deeply into the world and consequently to experience more excitement and ecstasy. The fire burns brighter, fueled by awareness instead of anxiety.

Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.

I have a flamthrower. (Zarek) You have a what? (Astrid) It pays to be prepared. (Zarek) Well. Those are nice for toasting marshmallows, but they’ll only make Thanatos mad. Regular fire won’t hurt him. I have this really neat gelatinous goo that comes out with my fire and it squirts my victims so that it don’t come off. Wanna see it? (Simi) No! (Zarek/Astrid) No? I don’t like that word. (Simi) We love you, Simi. We’re just scared of your goo. (Astrid) Oh, that I understand. Okay, you can live. (Simi)

We're not saying that marriage, the thing, is now open to anyone of any gender. We are saying, when the word marriage is used in this particular context, this is what it means. And it was the same with "alternative facts." That was a big one. "Feminism" was a big one. And when people came to the "marriage" entry, because we live in the Internet age, they either immediately fire off an email to us saying they're horrified at how commie-pinko-liberal we are, or they fire off an e-mail saying thank you so much for speaking truth to power.

On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant.

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

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

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

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

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

Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive.

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

The FBI holds sacred the rights of individuals to peacefully exercise their First Amendment freedoms.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

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

The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.

Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.

Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

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

Courage is the most important thing...Wake up yourselves and others. Control your mind and have firm determination... Be firm like a rock, deep and serious like the sea. Think of the earth as a mother. Have great courage and patience - and be not afraid of water, fire or great storms - face them bravely. Face the fire and it will turn to ice. This requires control of mind and a firm determination.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay.

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

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

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

'Sacred Games' has actually turned out to be the most challenging experience of my acting career.

There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europe—our home, now, ours and our children's to come—into a raging inferno. We are surrounded by a Ring of Fire. Well, I've fought forest fires before. So have lots of other men in this room. The best way to fight [such] a fire is to start a counterfire. So my position is simple. I say we start the American Revolution—a hundred and fifty years ahead of schedule!

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.