Quotes About Sacred

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Mi locura es sagrada, no la toquen.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Your fight -- our fight -- to end abortion in America will be one of the turning points in the history of the world. Just as when Great Britain ended the slave trade was a world history turning point, this movement to end abortion in America is a world history turning point. We must establish the common thought that all human life -- at all stages -- is sacred.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

The most significant myths of a given culture are usually the cosmogonic, or creation myths, the sacred stories evolved and developed in an effort to explain the origin of the universe, the presence of the gods, and the existence of man.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war

your sweet apple grove, altars smoking with frankincense

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Theologian Stephen Crites says sacred stories are like dwelling places—like booths or tabernacles. We don't tell these stories as much as we inhabit them.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. Walking on Water

The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.

Soms laat ons die dinge wat vir ons die heiligste is in ander se sorg. Wanneer ons dit deel, leef die verhaal voort, ná ons en ons tyd. 'n Daad van geloof en liefde.

Quelques mois plus tard, je donnai à un des quartiers d'Antinoé, le nom de ma soeur Pauline. [...] Pauline morte retrouvait dans cette ville de la mémoire sa place unique de soeur. Ce lieu triste devenait le site idéal des réunions et des souvenirs, les Champs Élysées d'une vie, l'endroit où les contradictions se résolvent, où tout, à son rang, est également sacré.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

The world is meant to be a safe and nurturing environment for children. The fact that it isn't is a sacred call to action for every conscious woman.

Todas las mañanas, al despertar, podemos bendecir el mundo. Podemos orar para lograr ser hoy los seguidores de algo realmente sagrado y verdadero. Podemos respirar profundo y entregarnos al Plan de Dios por toda nuestra vida. Y, cuando lo hagamos, experimentaremos los milagros. Lo más importante es esto: si no lo hacemos, nos sentiremos deprimidos.