Quotes About Sacredness

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

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

If the root is holy, the branches shall be holy.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

The treasure of a lifetime lies in the sacredness of the heart.

Explore the depth of the sacred world.

We can only love one another deeply from the heart, for there is home of sacredness.

What power is higher than the power of purity?

Grandfather, sacred one, Teach us love, compassion, and honor, That we may heal the earth And heal one another.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

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

Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

The heart knows all the sacredness of happiness.

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

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

Only if we are still enough inside and the noise of thinking subsides can we become aware that there is a hidden harmony here, a sacredness, a higher order in which everything has its perfect place and could not be other than what it is and the way it is.

Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds, while you were completely present, was that beauty or that sacredness there.

I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings.

Over time, we move beyond a dualistic view of God being "up there" while we are "down here" to a vision where God is up there, down here, in others, and within ourselves, all at the same time. "We are all en Cristo" (page 43). In taking this view, we start to see that all things are sacred, including the masks we wear, the shadows we seek to hide, the wounds we carry, and the parts of ourselves we consider profane. Every thing is sacred.