Sacredness Quotes

• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

  Theodore Parker

  Respect, Self Esteem, Individuality

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship”, p.58

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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  Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

  Rumi

  Hurt, Blessing, Wings

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• When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Tree, Add

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.84, New World Library

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• Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

  Pema Chodron

  Work, Buddhism, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Silence, Depth, Divine

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.54

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• That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

  Paul Tsongas

  Nature, Thinking, Generations

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• When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Awakening, Fullness

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

  Paul Tsongas

  Children, Fundamentals, Legacy

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• There is a sacredness in tears

  Washington Irving

  Tears

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• Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving, Listening, Sound

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.79, New World Library

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• Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings. After all, there must be something more mystical beyond the garden gate, something that satisfies the soul's attraction to beauty, peace, solace, and celebration.

  Christopher McDowell

  Beauty, Spiritual, Philosophical

  "The Sanctuary Garden: Creating a Place of Refuge in Your Yard Or Garden". Book by Christopher Forrest McDowell, 1998.

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• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Criticism, Age, Examination

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Pure Reason”, p.12, eKitap Projesi

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• Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Civilization, Dollars, Saving

  Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin (2015). “The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.51, Cosimo Classics

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• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Despair

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168

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• When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Machines, Violence, Treats

  Phillip Moffitt (2012). “Emotional Chaos to Clarity: Move from the Chaos of the Reactive Mind to the Clarity of the Responsive Mind”, p.147, Penguin

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• Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

  S.M. Stirling

  Grit, Pearls, Sometimes

  S. M. Stirling (2012). “Lord of Mountains: A Novel of the Change”, p.23, Penguin

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• I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  God, Nature, Believe

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• All is known in the sacredness of silence.

  Rumi

  Silence, Known

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• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

  Immanuel Kant

  Criticism, Age, Exemption

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Kant's Critiques”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

  Max Lucado

  Marriage, God, Government

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