Quotes About Sacred

Who made the rule that people shouldn't eat or drink in a church?" So they'd tried it. At first it felt awkward, wrong. As though God would be offended if people took a meal in his house. Until they realized that the sacrilege wasn't eating and talking and laughing in the chapel. It was leaving it empty.

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

Der Religion ist nur das Heilige wahr, der Philosophie ist nur das Wahre heilig.

Y sin duda nuestro tiempo... prefiere la imagen a la cosa, la copia al original, la representación a la realidad, la apariencia al ser... lo que es 'sagrado' para él no es sino la ilusión, pero lo que es profano es la verdad. Mejor aún: lo sagrado aumenta a sus ojos a medida que disminuye la verdad y crece la ilusión, hasta el punto de que el colmo de la ilusión es también para él el colmo de lo sagrado

We have no alternative. We must break the sacred rule and question these rules because unless we talk about them, there is no way out. We must evaluate them in the light of our newfound knowledge of families as systems.

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.

Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.

It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

For this reason shall a woman leave her father's house, and cleave unto her husband, and the two shall be one flesh.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds

There are also natural wonders, sacred because they magnetize people, wrench from them profound feelings of awe and fright. What is sacred goes far beyond the religious.

Nature is a living system, so sacred That those who use it profanely Will surely lose it; And to lose nature Is to lose ourselves." (Tao Te Ching 29)

There is much here that is holy, an aberration in the heartland of the real.

Holy, holy, holy", seems written on every page. To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so-called, such as the Koran, the Shasters, or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a mole hill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Koh-i-noor diamond with a bit of glass.

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.