Quotes About Sacred

God as love expresses the idea that the sacred is not found in a distant object toward which we focus our love, but rather is testified to in the act of loving itself. Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world.

The desire to say nothing, to create sacred space, opens up the most beautiful type of language available – the language of parables, prose and poetry. This is why the mystics would write so extensively about how nothing can be written and would preach beautiful sermons about the futility of words. Without such well-honed words we may begin to think that we have something to say instead of viewing our life as the space out of which God speaks.

For instance, the words love your neighbor should not be thought of as sacred or divine. These words are no more than words. They take on a revelatory role only when they are lived, that is, when someone actually gets their hands dirty and loves their neighbor—in other words, when this phrase is incarnated in action. The idea of loving one's neighbor is the Word of God, not when it is merely affirmed, but when it is lived.

Regardless of how we might feel about another human being, they are made in God's image and of infinite value and worth.

genuine love is released in a relationship, God's presence is manifest. The separate space between us becomes sacred space.

When God called Israel out of Egypt, he affirmed they were sacred human beings made in his image. He then showed them how to live according to their God-given nature. In effect, God said, "It may feel awkward at first, but as a fish is created to live in water, I created you to live according to this design.

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

I was left with a sensation of having encountered a monster, in the ancient sense of the original Latin word, "monstrum": "an omen or warning of the will of the gods."4

In other words, if the journey you have chosen is indeed a pilgrimage, a soulful journey, it will be rigorous. Ancient wisdom suggests if you aren't trembling as you approach the sacred, it isn't the real thing. The sacred, in its various guises as holy ground, art, or knowledge, evokes emotion and commotion.

Maslow puts it, "The great lesson from the true mystics . . . [is] that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

And love is part and union in itself Of all that is in nature, brilliant, pure-- Of all in feeling, sacred and sublime.

Culture and sacred order are inseparable... No culture has ever preserved itself where there is not a registration of sacred order.

Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice, the least intolerant, among the Reformers.

Lo sagrado está completamente prohibido, porque lo sagrado sí que escandalizaría de verdad a las varías decenas de millones de pequeñoburgueses que todas las noches se reafirman en la estúpida idea que tienen "de sí mismos" delante del televisor.

prophétique de la grande critique d'auteur et le ronron sacerdotal de la tradition scolaire ? Mais

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

'Sacred Games' will take Indian visual content to another level.

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.

I wanted to show people that there's nothing wrong with trying to make something sacred.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

Those who would assail The Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions.

truest of true believers, Taylor was not about to compromise the most sacred principles of the Kingdom of God to appease the church's Gentile oppressors.