Top 1200 Sacred Fire Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

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

The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.

'Sacred Games' is a huge milestone in my career, as I have never received such fame, attention, and success in my life.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

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

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

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.

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there would finally be peace in the world. "Peace in the world," Brigan repeated musingly when Fire told him. "I suppose she's right. That would bring peace to the world. But it's not likely to happen, so I suppose we'll have to keep blundering on and making a mess of it." "Oh," Fire said, "well put. We'll have to pass that on to the governor so he can use it in his speech when they dedicate the new bridge.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.

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

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot iron, it is the analogy equated for the Divine Nature which became united with the human nature. They explained that when the blacksmith strikes the red-hot iron, the hammer is actually striking both the iron and the fire united with it. The iron alone bends (suffers) whilst the fire is untouched though it bends with the iron.

There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.

Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.

Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.

Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.

Advertising is the best insurance that you can take out on your business. You can buy fire insurance on your stock of goods, but no company will issue a policy covering your business, the good will as they sometimes call it. You must insure yourself, and the best way to do it is by advertising. Good advertising kept up for a number of years gives you something that no fire can take away.

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

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."

It is our sacred obligation to eliminate the curse of poverty in the shortest possible time. This is non-negotiable for the Republic.

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