Sacred Things Quotes - Page 2

• Since the sanctity of the body is so related to the sanctity of sex, why make the body so common? Why expose to the public eye this sacred thing which is the temple of God?

  Mark E. Petersen

  Sex, Eye, Body

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• In the scriptures the term light-mindedness means making light of sacred things or not taking seriously those eternally significant things that should be treated with reverence (D&C 84:54).

  Brent L. Top

  Mean, Light, Significant Things

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• And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

  Veena Sud

  Powerful, Interesting, Cynical

  Source: deadline.com

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• The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life Changing, Thinking, Things In Life

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• ...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.

  Greg Mortenson

  School, Commitment, Long

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.60, Penguin

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• Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Mean, Shame, Found

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• For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

  Mario Cuomo

  Italian, Would Be, Dishes

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• There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.

  Heather Armstrong

  Opposites, Mind, Sides

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• Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

  J. G. Holland

  Children, Play, Healthy

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.88

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• Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.

  John Calvin

  Thinking, Order, May

  John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.1, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

  James Alan Gardner

  Choices, Hydrogen, Deliberate

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.353, Open Road Media

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• Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Deeds, Pagan, Prophet

  Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ilya Schor (1995). “The Earth is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe”, p.14, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Flags, Sacred, Nations

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• I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

  Jason Momoa

  Father, Half, Taught

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Father, History, Sacred

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part II, Book III, Chapter 3), 1620.

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