Sacred Quotes - Page 6

• Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wall, Race, Feelings

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• Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Travel, Journey, Each Day

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• Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Trust, Universal, Transcendent

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• Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Rain, Two, Vines

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• My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, People, Joy

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• Religion is often politics made sacred.

  Gloria Steinem

  Made

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Receiving, Revelations, Process

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• The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

  May Sarton

  Body, Forget, Creation

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• In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Mean, Doe

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• Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
  [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

  Abba Eban

  Horse, Groups, Research

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• You are doing something very sacred here, something very daring, during your life upon the earth. You are defining yourself, and then creating yourself anew, in each golden moment of now.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Creating, Golden Moments

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 19, 2016

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• Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Plant, Feels

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• Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friendship, Marriage, Passion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9049, Delphi Classics

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• Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.

  Rajneesh

  Alertness, Little Things, Small Things

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

  Nazr Mohammed

  Education, Fear, Military

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• The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

  Sam Harris

  Yesterday, Reason

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Religious, Men, Unions

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons”, p.212

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• The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

  Sam Keen

  Moving, Technology, Reality

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Children, Duty, Educate

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2015). “Beethoven: As Revealed in His Own Words”, p.48, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

  Nat Hentoff

  Life Is, Seamless

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• It doesn't have to be somber to be sacred.

  David Wolpe

  Somber

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• Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Sublime, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Small Is Beautiful

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

  Curtis White

  Understanding, Ongoing, Process

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• The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Past, Leader, World

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