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Quotes About Sacred

That is why the most sacred thing in life is death.
~ Eckhart Tolle
La prueba no está en los argumentos intelectuales sino en ser tocado en alguna medida por lo sagrado.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. She admired him most of all, perhaps, for being able to convey as distinct a sense of superiority as the richest man she had ever met.
~ Edith Wharton
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; Whose prayses hauing slept in silence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broad emongst her learned throng: Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song. 2 Helpe then, ô holy Virgin chiefe of nine, Thy weaker Nouice to performe thy will
~ Edmund Spenser
Andrés was Latin enough to understand the sacred rights of the family and the inconvenience of a same-sex lover.
~ Edmund White
They have decided to chance it, the healer's farm being only twenty miles off the main road and in her now, gusts of hope, the morbid gloom of earlier brushed away. Something so sacred about this man using his own blood, as did the Savior.
~ Edna O'Brien
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Sacred space allows us to enter our quiet inner world where healing takes place.
~ Alberto Villoldo
That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it. Man, when he achieves an adequate level of consciousness, feels the sacred in everything around him, and the world takes on this essence. The plants, the rocks, the joke: they are sacred; these things are consecrated.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Proferite queste parole, abbassó la testa, e si mise la corona intorno al collo, quasi come un segno di consacrazione.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
~ Alexander Hamilton
A sacred respect for the Constitutional Law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The rosary, however, is no invention of the Papacy. It is of the highest antiquity, and almost universally found among Pagan nations. The rosary was used as a sacred instrument among the ancient Mexicans. It is commonly employed among the Brahmins of Hindustan; and in the Hindu sacred books reference is made to it again and again.
~ Alexander Hislop
The meeting points the sacred hair disseverFrom the fair head, forever, and forever!Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes,And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
~ Alexander Pope
Homo sapiens," "homo faber" … yes, but, first of all, "homo adorans.
~ Alexander Schmemann
Homo sapiens," "homo faber" … yes, but, first of all, "homo adorans." The first, the basic definition of man is that he is the priest.
~ Alexander Schmemann
One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must be sacred too. They let us experience the values we've chosen for our lives in one exquisite not of pleasure exactly but of oneness with all of existence and with our own personal relationship to it. Art says: "This is Life." Sex says: "This is Living.
~ Alexandra York
One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must be sacred too. They let us experience the values we've chosen for our lives in one exquisite moment not of pleasure exactly but of oneness with all of existence and with our own personal relationship to it. Art says: "This is Life." Sex says: "This is Living.
~ Alexandra York
As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment (p. 290).
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Time is the architect of fate, fleeting omen, pure phantom in enchanting light of absence, and our life the play of love and death, only love will never die, because In love no longer 'thou' and 'I' exist, only the blossom of sacred unity.
~ Alexis karpouzos
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
~ Victor Hugo
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
~ Chief Seattle
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
~ Francis Bacon