Top 270 Sanctity Quotes & Sayings

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

It means a lot to me, the sanctity of marriage.

Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.

The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it. Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.

I am a strong believer in the sanctity of life. It's time that someone stands up for the lives of the unborn.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

The sanctity of ballot should not be trampled.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.

We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'

I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.

It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and that, in the last analysis, your sanctity will never be mine and mine will never be yours, except in the communism of charity and grace. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

I keep my sanctity and respect intact.

I firmly believe in the sanctity of life.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

A degree which is just the paper and does not have the sanctity of law is not the one you want the students chasing for four years.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Since the sanctity of the body is so related to the sanctity of sex, why make the body so common? Why expose to the public eye this sacred thing which is the temple of God?

They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.

These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. hey go on and on with all this bullshit about "sanctity"—don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.

Believing in the sanctity of life also shouldn't expose anyone to discrimination or penalties for declining to support abortion.