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Quotes About Sacred

in the ancient African tradition women are the sacred key to life. They carry, then push all life into existence. They are a metaphor for wisdom. Midnight
~ Sister Souljah
The whole country acknowledges that a woman is sacred. Every move she makes is either building her family up or breaking it down. Every thought she has is felt and considered by her children. Every word she speaks either teaches or misleads. She must remain honorable, pure, and righteous, otherwise there will be no happiness, no family, and no reason to exist.
~ Sister Souljah
Who has ever wandered through such forests, in a length of many miles, in a boundless expanse, without a path, without a goal, amid their monstrous shadows, their sacred gloom, without being filled with deep reverence for the sublime greatness of Nature above all human agency, without feeling the grandeur of the idea which forms the basis of Vidar's essence?
~ Snorri Sturleson
life is inherently sacred and must be lived with sacred intensity and purpose
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
At the heart of all religions is the certainty that there is a fundamental truth, and that this life is a sacred opportunity to evolve and realize it.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
These three sacred principles—the skillful motivation, the attitude of nongrasping that secures the practice, and the dedication that seals it—are what make your meditation truly enlightening and powerful.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
A mirror has a clean light that reflects everything as it is. It symbolizes the stainless mind of the kami, and at the same time is regarded as a sacred symbolic embodiment of the fidelity of the worshipper towards the kami.
~ Sokyo Ono
Small cakes called amphiphontes meaning shining on both sides, were offered to the goddess here.
~ Sorita d'Este
A number of animals were considered particularly sacred to Artemis. Chief amongst these were the deer, the dog and the bear, but they also included the boar, the hare and possibly the lion. Several birds were also considered sacred to her, including the partridge, quail and buzzard.
~ Sorita d'Este
No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
To commit adultery with God is the perfect experience for which the world was created.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Cuando consideras que un símbolo, o un lugar, o un momento, o una persona o un acto es sagrado, entonces toda tu atención deja de estar dividida y se integra.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The experiences of BPM I typically have strong mystical overtones; they feel sacred or holy. More precise, perhaps, would be the term numinous, which C.G. Jung used to avoid religious jargon. When we have experiences of this kind, we feel that we have encountered dimnensions of reality that belong to a superior order.
~ Stanislav Grof
Aucune souffrance n'est plus sacrée que celle qui par pudeur n'ose pas se manifester
~ Stefan Zweig
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
~ Mark Russell
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
~ David O. McKay
The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.
~ Carl Sagan
The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.
~ Simone Weil
Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
~ C. P. Scott
I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.
~ Gladys Mitchell
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
~ Bill Vaughan
A noble truth is a sacred creed.
~ Bob Dylan
Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.
~ Henry B. Eyring