Quotes About Sacred

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

For the words of a vow are sacred not only among men and the angels, but among the demons as well.

It is an echo, in fact, from the last lines of Dante's Divine Comedy, the lines in which Dante describes what it is to feel ecstatic bliss in the mystical union with God, to give up your entire identity and subsume it beneath the sacred power of God's divine love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Whether this mysterious sanctuary hidden amid Pemako's mist-shrouded mountains can ever be located geographically is of secondary importance to the journey itself. In the Buddhist tradition, the goal of pilgrimage is not so much to reach a particular destination as to awaken within oneself the qualities and energies of the sacred site, which ultimately lie within our own minds.

The Falls of the Tsangpo had offered turn-of-the-century explorers a geographical quest to rival the search for the headwaters of the Nile. But the Tibetans—who knew of it already—did not view the falls as a topographical trophy but as a sacrament, a threshold between the physical universe and the world of the spirit.

West-central Fife could use a spot of communion itself. It would drink the wine and pawn the chalice.

He moved toward her like a pilgrim on holy ground.

Dicho del Profeta Tinta y sangre La tinta de los sabios es más sagrada que la sangre derramada por los mártires.

El gran poeta Hafiz dice que deberías teñir tu alfombra de oraciones con vino si tu maestro te dice que lo hagas.

Sabíais que el Creador... se emborrachaba? ¡Piedad para ese labio mancillado en las copas de la orgía!

The Buddha said, 'Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.' I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.

You have only to feel the sacred music of your soul, to dance.

Authentic grief is humbling; it causes the ego to face forces that are much greater than it can even imagine and it teaches us how to find gain in loss. With authentic grief, then, our profane wound becomes a sacred wound, permitting us to molt out of the cocoon into a wholly new life. Going through the wound like a gateway, we emerge transformed

We will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our Nation and our people to be ignored or violated." He spoke of "the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking," and accepted that Germany had, in fact, already gone to war against the United States.

God is often silent when we prefer that he speak and he interrupts us when we prefer that he stay silent. His ways are not our ways. To live with the sacred God of creation means that we conduct our lives with a God who does not explain himself to us. It means that we worship a God who is often mysterious - too mysterious to fit our formulas for better living. It means that God is not our best friend our secret lover or our good-luck charm. He is God.

Thus, a "psalm" may be defined secondly as sacred literature for meditation.

I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.

Significantly for place, Barth asserts that "God grants him His own presence, i.e., Himself as the Co-inhabitant of this place."[113] From this perspective place is never fully place without God as a co-inhabitant.

We are spiritual beings here to experience physical reality, and isn't that a grand event to celebrate? Unfortunately, most of us are taught that the everyday world is less holy than the one located in the heavens. The truth is, all of earth is an altar to goodness, but the path to living in a sacred and joyful manner must be chosen with wisdom. And wisdom is often hard earned.

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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 civilian wants to respect what the veteran has gone through. The veteran wants to protect memories that are painful and sacred to him from outside judgment.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

Privacy is so sacred, and any time a victim is returned, a survivor is found and rescued, privacy is one of the greatest gifts we can give them because if they decide to share, that's up to them, and they will come forward.