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Quotes About Sacred

What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.
~ Douglas Brinkley
The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
~ William Gurnall
The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.
~ Boyd K. Packer
Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.
~ Wayne Dyer
...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.
~ Frederick Buechner
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.
~ Gisele Bundchen
My personal medicine bundle is my backpack that I have at the top of the course. Each person's medicine bundle is different and sacred and not to be spoken of. I have some goodies in my bundle. And my power stone is a quartz crystal that I love and wear almost every day.
~ Jamie Anderson
Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
~ Tim Kaine
The greater and the more obvious the lie, the more his subjects demonstrate their loyalty by accepting it, and the more they participate in the great sacral mystery of Kremlin p
~ Timothy Snyder
Si la royauté était sacrée, le roi ne l'était pas pour autant ; les hommes du Moyen Age savaient faire la distinction entre la fonction et celui qui l'exerçait.
~ Titus Burckhardt
Selon toutes les prophéties, le dépôt sacré de la Tradition intégrale subsistera jusqu'à la fin du cycle ; cela signifie qu'il y aura toujours quelque part une porte ouverte. Pour les hommes capables de dépasser le plan des écorces et animés d'une volonté singulière, ni la décadence du monde environnant, ni l'appartenance à tel peuple ou tel milieu, ne constituent des obstacles absolus.
~ Titus Burckhardt
en terre d'Islam,] la distinction entre le sacré et le profane n'existe normalement que dans l'usage que l'on fait des œuvres d'art et non dans leurs formes : une maison n'est pas bâtie dans un style différent de celui d'une mosquée.
~ Titus Burckhardt
Baz? halklar?n neden kutsal yaz?lara, öte boyutlardan gelen birilerinin getirdi?i mesajlara gereksinme duymad?klar?n? ?imdi anl?yordum. Gözlerinin önünde, herkese aç?k, okunmay? bekleyen bir kitap oldu?unu biliyorlard?. Bütün mesajlar oradayd?. Do?ada, insano?lunun onu sömürmek ve kendi amaçlar?na uygun kullanmak için henüz ellerini uzatmad???, gizliden gizliye kutsal bir özellik vard?.
~ Tiziano Terzani
The Haida people taught me when you are depleted, go to places that are sacred for you - the ocean, or a forest. That is where you will find incredible energy.
~ Severn Cullis-Suzuki
I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging.
~ Naomi Alderman
It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian
~ Oscar Wilde
I have also learnt sympathy with suffering. To me, suffering seems now a sacramental thing, that makes those whom it touches holy.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
~ Oscar Wilde
One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived or learned. In its absence one has, at the best, not history but 'progress' — the mechanical movement of a clock hand, not the sacred succession of interlinked events.
~ Osip Mandelstam
Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Le raffinement culinaire était l'orgueil suprême des trois soeurs ; la table représentait pour elles la conservation d'un héritage sacré, d'une culture aux terres de laquelle elles ne reviendraient plus, écartées de leur patrie par le temps et par des mers immenses. J'avoue que j'ai vécu
~ Pablo Neruda
Master stressed on other occasions the futility of mere book learning. "Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary," he remarked. "Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge." Sri
~ Paramahansa Yogananda