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• These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Past, Sheep, Light

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• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are
  neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that
  those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will
  respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse
  for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to
  encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
  greater confidence than an armed man.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Men, Gun, Law

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• "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Independence, Mind

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• The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation of society. It is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness. It's a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights and older than our political parties. One of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause. A right of intimacy to the degree of being sacred. And a liberty right equally available to a person in a homosexual relationship as to heterosexual persons.

  Ted Olson

  Party, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

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• The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself.  Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mother, Children, Humble

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• The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mean, Knowing, Pages

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• I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Self, Circles

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• Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions. The latter texts simply enjoy the considerable advantage of having made their public debut in the shadowy recesses of the ancient past, and are thus much harder to refute.

  Jon Krakauer

  Book, Past, Mind

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Government, Remember

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• Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While it requires sacrificial service, it is not a call to martyrdom. In many cases of domestic violence, a therapeutic separation is necessary to gain safety and direct attention to the gravity of the need for change.

  Rob Jackson

  Two, People, Safety

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• No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no idle hours; there are only idle people. In true righteousness there is serenity, but there is an array of reminders that the "sacred present" is packed with possibilities which are slipping by us, which are going away from us each moment.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  People, Serenity, Balance

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• I fear that many of us rush about from day to day taking for granted the Holy Scriptures. We scramble to honor appointments with physicians, lawyers, and businessmen. Yet we think nothing of postponing interviews with Deity postponing scripture study. Little wonder we develop anemic souls and lose our direction in living. How much better it would be if we planned and held sacred fifteen or twenty minutes a day for reading the scriptures. Such interviews with Deity would help us recognize his voice and enable us to receive guidance in all of our affairs.

  Carlos E. Asay

  Reading, Thinking, Voice

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• Solitude can become your most meaningful companion and it can assist you in being a more giving person in your spiritual partnerships. Rather than regarding your partner's need for time alone as a threat, see it as a time of renewal that you celebrate. Make every effort to help each other have that space. Treat that space as sacred.

  Wayne Dyer

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Space

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• The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

  John Calvin

  Sacrifice, Thankfulness, Tables

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• From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Joy

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.150, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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• The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

  Max Weber

  Struggle, Moving, Fate

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.84, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Men, Sacred Things

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

  Dogen

  Sacredness, Mundane

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• No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made -- I and the Lord with whom I have made them -- unless I choose to reveal them. If I do not, then they are secret and sacred no matter what others may say or do. Anyone who would reveal these things has not understood them, and therefore that person has not given them away. You cannot reveal what you do not know!

  Hugh Nibley

  Secret, Matter, Weight

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• The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

  Auguste Comte

  Order, Goal, Progress

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• Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Tools, Psychedelic

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• Make sure your family and loved ones don’t interrupt you during your
  writing time. If you’re a lawyer or doctor, friends don’t just stop by the office to chat or interrupt you from your work. But for some reason, people think writing is different. It isn’t, and you need to make clear that this is sacred time.

  Douglas Preston

  Writing, Thinking, Doctors

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• The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

  Mircea Eliade

  Real, Space, World

  Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.

  Mircea Eliade

  Religious, Reality, Stones

  Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

  Mircea Eliade

  Hero, Adventure, Men

  "Myths, Dreams and Mysteries". Book by Mircea Eliade translated by Philip Mairet (p. 23), 1967.

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