Sacred Quotes - Page 17

• The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Destiny, Government

  First Inaugural Address, New York, N.Y., 30 Apr. 1789

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• The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

  Mark Twain

  4th Of July, Loss, Years

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.263, Xist Publishing

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• At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

  Joseph Campbell

  Yoga, Space, Finding Yourself

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• Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.

  Caroline Adams Miller

  Wisdom, Yoga, Healing

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• We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Father, Animal, Vegetarianism

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1867). “Queer Little People”, p.150

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• For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Numbers, Order, Birth Rate

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• Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Teaching, Science

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• The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

  Stefon Harris

  God, Past, Opportunity

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• No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Agony, Soul

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.234, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this 'big is better' idea-on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path.

  Satish Kumar

  God, Spiritual, Art

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• In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

  Anatole France

  Democracy, Sacred Things, Wealth

  L'Ile des pingouins (Penguin Island, 1908) pt. 6, ch. 2

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• Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.

  Guru Nanak

  Pain, Men, Law

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• We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiring, Success, Responsibility

  "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein".

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• Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary quality of the central figures in two of his most famous parables: the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan. And Jesus himself, as a manifestation of the sacred, is often spoken of as embodying compassion.

  Marcus Borg

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It dethrones the ego from the center of our lives and puts others there, breaking down the carapace of the selfishness that holds us back from an experience of the sacred. And it gives us ecstasy, broadening our perspectives and giving us a larger, enhanced vision.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Compassion, Perspective

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.331, Vintage Canada

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• Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Laughter, Prayer

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• Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Men, Empires

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• Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Morality, Telling The Truth

  In the Illustrated London News, 24 February 1906.

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• The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Rights, Divine Right

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• It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation.

  Marcus Allen

  Art, Sex, Meditation

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• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

  Saraha

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the various religions. I consider it very sacred work and very important work

  Dalai Lama

  God, Organization, People

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• Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessing, Men

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• Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body

  Saraha

  Life, Buddhist, Moon

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Dec. 21-27)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

  Wayne Muller

  Prayer, Heart, World

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