Quotes About Sacred

The wind is full of memories; It whispers low and clear The sacred echoes of the past, And brings the dead more near.

What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.

I AM the violet flame     In action in me now I AM the violet flame     To Light alone I bow I AM the violet flame     In mighty cosmic power I AM the light of God     Shining every hour I AM the violet flame     Blazing like a sun I AM God's sacred power     Freeing every one

sacrifice and denial are not always one and the same. The word sacrifice means to make sacred. Life is sacred, and sacrifice is returning to life what life has given. A sacrifice might be something offered or relinquished. Something dies and becomes the ground of new life, and both the life and the death are sacred.

bones and muscles, organs and skin, I want to take care of the gift of my body. I want to feed it well, move it gracefully, and rest it deeply. I know that the life force beats on, even when the heart has stopped, but while I have a heart and lungs, I want to treat them with sacred awe. And while I dwell with others who are just like me, I want to see them for who they really are, in all of their fragility and all of their majesty.

He was training people to become "sacred warriors"—not so that they could do battle with others but so that they could develop the kind of courage one needs to be kind and happy and radically alive in the midst of the world.

If she were Catholic, she could kneel, kneel and bow her head inside a church with brilliant stained-glass windows and streaks of golden light falling over her. Yes, oh yes, she would kneel and stretch out her arms, holding to her Amy and Dottie and Bev.

When the ruler or rulers failed to act in the people's interest, Buchanan wrote, then each and every citizen, even "the lowest and meanest of men," had the sacred right and duty to resist that tyrant, even to the point of killing him.

Hire myself out to whom? What beast must I worship? What sacred images should I destroy? What hearts shall I break? What lies am I supposed to believe? March through whose blood?

Je finis par trouver sacré le désordre de mon esprit.

I looked on the disorder of my mind as sacred. Disaster was my God.

Terminé por encontrar sagrado el desorden de mi espíritu. Permanecía ocioso, presa de pesada fiebre: envidiaba la felicidad de las bestias —las orugas, que representan la inocencia de los limbos, los topos ¡el sueño de la virginidad!

Am sfârÅŸit prin a socoti sacr? dezordinea minÅ£ii mele.Eram trândav,prad? unei febre ap?s?toare:pizmuiam fericirea dobitoacelor,pizmuiam ÅŸi omizile,care întruchipeaz? inocenÅ£a limburilor,la fel ÅŸi cârtiÅ£ele,ÅŸi somnul virginit??ii!

At last, I began to consider my mind's disorder a sacred thing.

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

Let me chant in sacred numbers, as I strike each sounding string, Chant in sweet, melodious anthems, glorious deeds of Christ our King; He, my Muse, shall be thy story; with His praise my lyre shall ring.

the right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred thing than any religion.

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because I feel it's still sacred, like gospel. It's serious music, but it allows room to sing about so much other stuff as well.

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

God's work was what I felt was the greater work.

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.