Sacred Quotes - Page 13

• There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Men, Age

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• The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Boredom, Disrespect, World

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Beautiful, Memories

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Single, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without let the radio drowns us in a hog-wash of the most nauseating, sentimental ditties. From the churches comes the melancholy dirge of the dead Christ, a music which is no more sacred than a rotten turnip.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Symphony, Years

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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• Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Writing, Religion

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics

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• We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

  Mark Twain

  People, Religion, Sacred Things

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.544, eKitap Projesi

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• For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

  Anne Rice

  Memories, Kissing, Thinking

  Anne Rice (2000). “Merrick: a novel”, Knopf Canada

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• I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Believe, Practice, Elements

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• Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

  Salvador Dali

  Crazy, Jewels, Mustache

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• Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

  Nhat Hanh

  Baby, Jesus, Buddhist

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.

  Joel Salatin

  Hate, Animal, Disrespect

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• I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

  J. D. Salinger

  Suicide, Loneliness, Artist

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• We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

  Horace Mann

  Parent, Causes, Looks

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.184

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• The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

  Abraham Maslow

  Ignorance, Miracle, Family And Friends

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• If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

  Ann Druyan

  Skeptic, Train, Ifs

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• Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Veterans Day, Want, Sacred Things

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Sight, Egypt

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Animal, Vegetables, Holy

  Terry Tempest Williams (2001). “Leap”, Vintage

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• the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Knowledge, Men, Victory

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

  Homer

  Men, Rage From The Iliad, Fate In The Iliad

  HOMER (1961). “THE ODYSSEY”

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• Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Monday, Moon, White

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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• There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Destiny, Two, Humans

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Prayer, Believe, Everyday

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