Quotes About Sacred

I believe that the scriptures, the Sabbath, and the temple [are] mediums of holiness extended into this unholy world.

For thirty years I've defended this sacred place with the power of my mighty steed, Sunracer, my legendary lightning lance, and my unflagging faith." "Horses don't live thirty years," said Sorrow. "This is Sunracer VI, though

Holy' is a word used to conceal a great deal of nonsense," Blasphet

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

God's penis would still rank high among those vistas a priest and a nun could not comfortably share.

When we play religion we find our minds and hearts emptied, for a moment, of secular images as we paint a world of angels, Gods and Saviors.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark by Sir Laurence Gardner.

Few people know that, by canon law, each and every Catholic altar must contain a holy relic.

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

Lymond said, "Those who gather frankincense are dedicated unto divine honours, and use no carnal company with any woman.

Salvation is also a sacred covenant. We might have cause to worry if God honored His covenant to save us the same way many people these days honor their marriage vows.

Religion doesn't seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That's an idea we're so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it's kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is "Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? Because you're not!

In the American Southwest, for example, parts of the great Anasazi road system and its way stations were closed in the thirteenth century by burning brush and smashing sacred pots along its length, when the ancestral Pueblo people abandoned the region.

Even the vistas were tended, with view lines opened up to sacred architecture.

Institutionalized motherhood demands of women maternal 'instinct' rather than intelligence, selflessness rather than self-realization, relation to others rather than the creation of self. Motherhood is 'sacred' so long as its offspring are 'legitimate' -- that is, as long as the child bears the name of a father who legally controls the mothe.r

The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe. The modern age has forgotten that facts and information, for all their usefulness, are not the same as truth or wisdom, and certainly not the same as direct experience.

A good ritual is meant to evoke the mystery of being, the mystery of our own existence, the mystery of life, the mystery of God. It's meant to evoke that sense of eternity that shines through the latticework of time and space. That's really what ritual is for—to put us in touch with that sense of eternity, with the sense of the sacred.

God is not a statue,God is not a saint...God is not a picture that anyone can paint.

The sacred places mentioned are often difficult to identify, although usually they have been preserved by later religions, as for example Mecca (Sanskrit:Makheshvara), whose "black stone," mentioned in the Puranas, was an emblem of Shiva.

Nor is there any valid reason to reject the idea of God or the notion of the sacred just because of the sickly expression Christianity has given to them, any more than it is necessary to break with aristocratic principles on the pretext that they have been caricatured by the bourgeoisie.

Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

One pillar of my cooking is that salad dressing is sacred and that you always make it with the most delicious oil you can find. Usually, that means extra-virgin olive oil.

Universal health care is, for me, the most sacred part, the most important pillar, of British citizenship.