Top 1200 Sacred Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

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.

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.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and the sacred red fern.

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.

How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

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

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

He says you don't often find angels in places like happy homes and rich people's backyard parties. He says that angels flock to places like hospitals and homelss shelters and jails, because those people realize they need help. And do they are able to believe in strange phenomena. Funny how the world is backward. The really comfortable people don't always see much supernaturally, and to the ones who have to struggle, it's, like, breathing in their faces. The first are last... and the last are first.

As an artist, my only relationship to my audience is through my work. That relationship is sacred to me.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .

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.

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

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

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

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.

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

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.

I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.

'Lincoln' was a very sacred workplace. Everyone did a lot of research for that movie and wanted to show up informed and ready to enter that world.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

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

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.

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

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

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I was in college, and I found out at that time the Catholic Church was in such control of everything in communities, including in progressive places like New York - that a roommate of mine was not able to obtain an abortion with his girlfriend, even in places like New York. What I learned at that moment was the extraordinary clout that religious organizations can have to impose their theological views on others. And I found it exasperating and dangerous.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

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

I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.

When we deal with the name and reputation of another we deal with something sacred in the sight of the Lord.

I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.

This is the great secret. This is the sacred wisdom. Do unto others as you would have it done unto you.

Attention: a sacred energy coming into me. Be sensitive to it. Recognize again and again that it is there

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

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

The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to make it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.

The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.