Quotes with sacred

  • If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
  • Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
  • Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
  • Disillusioned words like bullets bark 
 As human gods aim for their marks. 
 Make everything from toy guns that spark 
 To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark. 
 It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
  • Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bertrand Russell Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Carl Sandburg In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Don Alan Pennebaker After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.
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  • Mary Caroline Richards Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Ben Nelson Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Shuster America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Carl E. Olson Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
    Carl E. Olson
    American author
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  • John Updike Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Heraclitus Bigotry is the sacred disease.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Charles Prestwich Scott Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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  • C. P. Scott Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
    C. P. Scott
    British journalist, publisher and politician (full name Charles Prestwich Scott) (1846 - 1932)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Dylan Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their marks.
    Make everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark.
    It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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