Quotes About Sacred

I fear you are a fool, but it is a holy foolishness.

A soul connection is a resonance between two people...a sacred alliance whose purpose is to help both partners discover and realize their deepest potentials. While a heart connection lets us appreciate those we love just as they are, a soul connection opens up a further dimension - seeing and loving them for who they could be, and for who we could become under their influence.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital

Amusements that have a tendency to weaken the love for sacred things and lessen our joy in the service of God are not to be sought by Christians.

Que nadie se imagine que no tiene necesidad de estudiar porque no debe predicar en el púlpito sagrado. No sabéis qué puede Dios requerir de vosotros.—FE 217 (1893).

The doctrine of the second advent is the very keynote of the Sacred Scriptures. From

Resulta difícil mantener a la mente indisciplinada fijada sobre temas provechosos. Pero si no se emplean debidamente los pensamientos, la religión no puede florecer en el alma. La mente debe preocuparse de cosas sagradas y eternas, de lo contrario encontrará gozo en pensamientos superficiales e insignificantes

All who occupied positions of sacred responsibility were to be men of strict temperance, that their minds might be clear to discriminate between right and wrong, that they might possess firmness of principle, and wisdom to administer justice and to show mercy.

I value devotion and fidelity, and doubt if it matters whether the object falls short. What you do and what you are is what matters. Your loyalty is as sacred as mine.

Lest Love should grow too earthly to aspire, The wise gods blinded him with vague desire; They nourished him on dreams and ecstasies, Tempered his arrows in the sacred fire.

To grant life more importance than it has is the mistake committed in sagging systems; as a consequence, no one is ready to sacrifice himself to defend them, and they collapse under the first blows perpetrated upon them. This is even more true of nations in general. Once they begin to hold life sacred, it abandons them, it ceases to be on their side.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Oh! where is Truth? am I never to find it? I can bear artifice in the frivolities and gauds of the world–it is all artificial in itself, all heartless–but sorrow should be as true as it is sacred. Falseness there appals and disgusts me.

Whoever looks on this, Loses himself in eternity; And entering the sacrid mountains of Sung, He will dream among the resplendent clouds.

May such a calm triumphant course To sacred souls be given, That, river-like, though born on earth, They image only Heaven.

The final life, the fruition of all other lives, to which the powers of the soul have tended, and whose merits open the Sacred Portals to perfected man, is the life of Prayer.

Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish—separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the distinctions we make between the two.

Most of us do not live especially holy lives, after all. We spend most of our time sitting in traffic, paying bills, and being irritated with one another. Yet every week we are invited to stop all of that for one hour at least. We are invited to participate in a great drama that has been going on without us for thousands of years, and one that will go on as long as there is a single player left standing.

Matter matters to God. The most ordinary things are drenched in divine possibility. Pronouncing blessings upon them is the least we can do.

Or I can set a little altar, in the world or in my heart. I can stop what I am doing long enough to see where I am, who I am there with, and how awesome the place is.

AS IMPORTANT AS IT IS to mark the places where we meet God, I worry about what happens when we build a house for God.

Dusk fell, and from the sacred oak-tree by the Scaean Gate the two vultures were gone; god and goddess, for the moment, reconciled.

Worship is the language of belief.

The first natural right man has in society is that of disposing freely of his person. It is the most sacred property in the world. Of what use is any other property, if between it and you is an impenetrable wall.