Quotes About Sacred

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

Every Jew has the right to ascend onto the Temple Mount.

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.

Indian burial grounds had a dark reputation in the folklore of the American West, and there were few men who had not heard some tale of the vengeful spirits who haunted such places, and of the terrible curses they might impart on those who strayed disrespectfully into their sacred lands.

Spirito Santo

The instant we admit that a book is too sacred to be doubted , or even reasoned about , we are mental serfs.

inner meaning of Holy Scripture to all who heard him. Sanctified by God

'Tis sin,Nay, profanation to keep in.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad. – Psalm 45:8

What made Jim truly mystical was his ability to live fully conscious of how, every day, a bit more of the sacred becomes desecrated. Still, Jim's awareness of how much had been lost didn't stop him from appreciating what remained.

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

the Exodus from Egypt, the home of the sacred monarchy, reinforces this idea: it is the 'desacralization' of social praxis. . . . In Egypt, work is alienated and, far from building a just society, contributes rather to increasing injustice and to widening the gap between exploiters and exploited.

The table itself was sacred, like the nuptial bed (lectus genialis) set up in line with the entrance door. The walls, the furniture, the dishes used for daily food as well as for honouring the gods were equally hallowed. Even workaday tools - broom, pestle, axe - had their own familiar demon: Deverra, Pilumnus, Intercidona.

Salt was sacred, and sanctified the table. The patella and salinum were the two items that the Roman of the pioneering days held above everything to be the deorum causa (Liv., 26, 36, 6). They were the only two items of tableware that the generals of that time took with them on campaign (Plin., NH, 33, 153).

Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.

Given the American example, it should always have been obvious that the sacred canopy claims are silly. In the United States, in the most fully pluralistic nation that probably has ever existed, religion is thriving. And it is absolutely clear that it is competition among religious groups, each needing to effectively recruit members or fade away, that has produced these results.

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways.. Yet it is never viewed with indifference; beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive

Through sacred things we can influence and be influenced by the transcendental.

Christians have inherited from Saint Augustine and from Plato the vision of this transient world as an icon of another and changeless order. They understand the sacred as a revelation in the here and now of the eternal sense of our being.

The ennobling power of the imagination lies in this: that it re-orders the world, and re-orders our feelings in response to it. Fantasy, by contrast, is frequently degrading. For it begins from the premise of a given emotion, which it can neither improve nor criticise but only feed. It is a slave of the actual, and deals in forbidden goods. Where imagination offers glimpses of the sacred, fantasy offers sacrilege and profanation.

While he joined eagerly in the contemporary intellectual battles, philosophy was, for Spinoza, not a weapon but a way of life, a sacred order whose servants were transported to a supreme and certain blessedness.

Marriage is like death, only happens once.

To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments, but rather with a new nature, that of human space: the Tower is not a trace, a souvenir, in short culture; but an immediate consumption of a humanity made natural by that glance which transforms it into space.