Top 115 Sacredness Quotes & Sayings

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

There is a sacredness in tears

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

I am not religious, but I still feel there is a sacredness about Mothering Sunday, even when I'm just enjoying a lie-in and a cup of tea from my boys.

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Love is sacred. Beauty is sacred. Flowers are sacred. Birds are sacred. And sacredness brings the perfume of love and compassion. Therefore love and compassion is the perfume of sacredness. It sounds rather poetic, but...God IS poetry.

Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings. After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate, something that satisfies the soul's attraction to beauty, peace, solace, and celebration.

When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

We can start accessing a new way of being, a freedom of our spirit, and we can align more to that sacredness. When we hold on to the illusion, we cannot really perceive ourselves within that sacredness.

Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.

My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human life.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

That is what the blueprint for this time is about. We're leaving behind the limitations and the illusion of the struggle. We're moving much more into having a very different experience now on the Earth plane with our sacredness.

You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.

The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized society, the living faith of the Christian community - a faith always aware of its rights vis-a-vis those who do not share the faith - ensures respect for this sacredness

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.

The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness - and we are utilizing that sacredness.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.