Sanctity Quotes - Page 7

• I am proudly pro-life and believe that science is proving those who believe in the sanctity of life right every day. A majority of Americans now agree that abortion after five months for any reason is wrong.

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Pro Life, Abortion

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Any strong Muslim regime that threatens Israel, and we did. He said the Americans only want oil, and, of course, Iraq has the second-largest reserves. And he said that we will always replace God's law with manmade law. And finally that we intended to occupy and destroy Islamic sanctities. And I suspect that in our government, very few people knew that Iraq was the second-holiest place in Islam, after the Arabian Peninsula.

  Michael Scheuer

  Strong, Islamic, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness. There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.

  Leslie Jordan

  Kindness, Believe, Thinking

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally - graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer Haywood.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Basketball, College, Years

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Art, Thoughtful

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• Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to provide stability for children. For people who live by the clear teaching of many different faith traditions and people who simply believe in the sanctity of marriage, it is essential that their views are respected.

  James Lankford

  Children, Believe, Teaching

  "Senate Values Action Team Responds to SCOTUS Marriage Decision". James Lankford's comments in response to the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, www.frcblog.com. June 26, 2015.

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• Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Party, Hands

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• The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Thinking, America, Speak

  Speech to his staff before the broadcast of the "See It Now" program on Joe McCarthy on March 09, 1954. "Edward R. Murrow And the Time Of His Time" by Joseph Wershba, www.evesmag.com.

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• All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Men, Political

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1957). “Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”, p.59, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.

  John Foley

  Faith, Inspiration, Example

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• ...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

  Huston Smith

  Different, Destination, Avenues

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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• The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Religious, Strong, Years

  "Peace: 1991-1995". World Scientific publication, p. 338, 1997.

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• Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Jesus, Father, Unity

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• The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Ideas, Evil

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.80, Vintage

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• It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.

  Thomas Merton

  Humility, Journey, Men

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• 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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• Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

  Antonin Scalia

  Burning, Bedroom, Bans

  "High court takes up Virginia cross-burning case" by William Mears, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2002.

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• Trump might well choose to renege on US obligations (so much for the sanctity of contracts!) and no doubt he would have the agreement of Zionist politicians like Schumer. But the consequences will be the increased isolation of the US - particularly from Europe, whose businesses will just move into Iran while US companies will lose out.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Moving, Agreement, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

  Attia Hosain

  Eye, Kissing, Childhood

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• Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

  John Milton

  Reason

  John Milton (1730). “Paradise Lost ... The author John Milton. The fourteenth edition, to which is prefix'd an Account of his life [by Elijah Fenton. With engraved plates]. MS. notes”, p.198

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• To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Humanity, Rope, Degradation

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.118

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• There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Strong, Commitment

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

  Otto Weininger

  Tasks, Virtue, Duty

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.159, Рипол Классик

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• Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

  Austin O'Malley

  Perfection, Strive, Ideals

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• Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Heart, Men, Ideas

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections”, p.252, Pan Macmillan

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