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Quotes About Sacred

In the early days of her pupilage with Maurice, he had told Maisie of his teachers, the wise men who spoke of the veil that was lifted in the early hours, of the all-seeing eye that was open before the day was awake. The hours before dawn were the sacred time, before the intellect rose from slumber. At this time one's inner voice could be heard.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
In the proper sense of the word, religion exists once the secret of the sacred, orgiastic, or demonic mystery has been, if not destroyed, at least integrated, and finally subjected to the sphere of responsibility.
~ Jacques Derrida
Every revolution, whether atheistic or religious, bears witness to a return of the sacred ? in the form of enthusiasm or fervour, otherwise known as the presence of the gods within us
~ Jacques Derrida
shrine of Loreto.
~ James A. Connor
How do you begin each day? At what hour do you rise? How do you commence your duties? In what frame of mind do you enter upon the sacred life of a new day? What answer can you give your heart to these important questions? You will find that much happiness or unhappiness follows upon the right or wrong beginning of the day, and that, when every day is wisely begun, happy and harmonious sequences will mark its course, and life in its totality will not fall far short of the ideal blessedness.
~ James Allen
But in order to deal with the untapped and dormant force of the previously subjugated, in order to survive as a human, moving, moral weight in the world, America and all the Western nations will be forced to reëxamine themselves and release themselves from many things that are now taken to be sacred, and to discard nearly all the assumptions that have been used to justify their lives and their anguish and their crimes so long.
~ James Baldwin
Americans suffer from an ignorance that is not only colossal, but sacred.
~ James Baldwin
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.
~ Salman Rushdie
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
~ Hans Kung
We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.
~ David Suzuki
O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.
~ Edward Dyer
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
~ Victor Hugo
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
hold company with yourself so sacredthat even when you are alone, you are whole.
~ AVA., you are safe here.
YOU... are a portal to the divine.
~ Tehya Sky
If you find your sacred soul, bind the love bond.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Seek to know thy sacred soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The soul who does not live to give the best, deny the sacred self of full strength.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The search for the soul is a sacred adventure.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Sacred soul with sparkle of divinity finds undefeatable strength.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Sacred soul excites sacred spirit.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I have met many sacred souls in reading.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
In deep pain, the sacred voice must speak to survive.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Marriage is a shared sacred life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita