Top 1200 Sacred Texts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.

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

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

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

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

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

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

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

Even in the busiest lives, there is room for a sacred pause. Between actions, pause and remember who you are.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

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

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

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

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

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

The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

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

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

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

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

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.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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

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

The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.

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

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

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

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

The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends.

I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief.

If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.

The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

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

Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

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.

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

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

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.

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

If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

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

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

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

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

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

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.