Quotes About Sacred

Comptroller," Sally began hurriedly in an oddly strangled voice. "I bring you this Wonder for the Coronation. We, the family Mullin, are honored to be the Keepers of the Coronations Biscuit Tin and as is our bounded duty since Time Began, we now resent this to thee, Oh, Comptroller, for its sacred duty. Safe Journey." - To Sarah

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

However, he never understood why anyone would want to separate science, which is just a way of searching for what is true, from what we hold sacred, which are those truths that inspire love and awe.

I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

I will never disgrace the sacred ground of the octagon.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

Signing my father's biopic inside a Shiv temple was surreal.

When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.