Quotes About Sacred

For him the religious significance of the immediate experience of the object was so great that his imagination was spellbound by the concretism of the material presence of the sacred body.

Five is the most sacred number in the firmament." She motioned.

I want to say yes, that I believed her, but she doesn't stop, so much mental spiritual moral existential attraction and none of it physical, I didn't want to accept that was all it was: that were were different, oh we were so different, we were better, we were more, we were superior, we were chosen, we were vaguely sacred but in the end my nipples wouldn't get hard and your dick didn't go up.

His ass gave off a scent of taunting intimacy. I couldn't reject that intimacy, and it was there that I traveled, intoxicated, to the most sacred part of him, without asking or offering anything, without thinking. I tried to quiet my fascination with his ass. That's where my urge to become one with him overpowered me.

The New Testament vision of the kingdom of God is no plunge into existential subjectivity, no phantasmagoric anti-intellectual experience, nor is it like being "turned on" by LSD even though ventured, as Timothy Leary would have it, as a sacred rite.

It would've been easier to die. It's not that I want to be dead now. I don't. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn't help but think that it would've been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you—you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow.

You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Wash me wholly in the waters Of the sacred springs of pain; Suffering be all my worship, Suffering be all my gain.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

it is our sacred duty to make valuable the lives that these people are laying down.

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts… his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

The rights of men must be held sacred, however great the cost of sacrifice may be to those in power. Here one cannot go halfway, cooking up hybrid, pragmatically-conditioned rights (which are somewhere between the right and the expedient); instead, all politics must bend its knee before morality...

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

La esencia de un buen médico consiste en la capacidad de compasión y el sentido de la ética, sin los cuales el arte sagrado de la sanación degenera en simple charlatanería.

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I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down and pass out pretty easily. I know that not everyone can. I think I'm good at it because I travel so much, and for me, being on planes is like a sacred time. It's the only time to zone out and meditate.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge.

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Oh! may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire.

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.