Quotes About Sacred

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

This word "love," which greybeards call divine.

I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted.

I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred.

Other Lakota would respect it. None would try to coerce it or even influence it. None would mock it. Your understanding was the essence of you, and to follow it your sacred choice. All

From now on you will eat nothing." Coming-from-the-Water took a skunk skin, slit it, and draped it around Sam's shoulders and chest. "Come," called Bell Rock. A half-dozen men came in, some carrying drums. Immediately, they started a song. "Attention," said Bell Rock. Sam sank his mind into the music. From within the music, he only half-noticed what was done. Bell Rock painted

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Reinterpreting sacred texts in the name of fidelity to God and kindness to neighbor is precisely what the Talmud does, and many Jewish scholars do, to this day.

The Bible was treated as trustworthy in a way that other human products were not, because it was not viewed as a human product.

Most great architecture is meant to impress the gods.

Writing in Egypt began around 3000 B.C. The official system was hieroglyphics ("sacred carvings"), revered as the gift of the scribe god Toth.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.

We needn't be saddened with the impossible weight of managing the entire biosphere, but we must meet the challenge of living in balance with the sacred elements.

I am no minister of malice," he said, "I would not repel the repentant, but . . . may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I forget the difference between the parties to that . . . bloody conflict. . . . I may say if this war is to be forgotten, I ask in the name of all things sacred what shall men remember?

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

Let thy sacred heart be thy holy home.

Made up of some holy freaking atoms.

Sacred being is beauty.