Sacred Quotes - Page 35

• Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Imagination, Veils

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

  Heber J. Grant

  Music, Spiritual, Powerful

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• The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Music, Church Choir, Hymns

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• The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

  Mircea Eliade

  Tree, Earth, Stones

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• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Self Reliance, Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

  Laozi

  Taoism, World, Changed

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• Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

  Alan Cohen

  Healing, Roots, Negative Experiences

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• Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
  Things least to be believed are most preferred.
  All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
  Are readily believed if once put down in print

  John Clare

  Simple, Soul, Mint

  John Clare (1935). “The Poems”

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• Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Teaching, Heart, Slides

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• Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

  A. Powell Davies

  Heart, Giving, Needs

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• We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything -- people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we draw close to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ether -- the realm where energy lives and weaves. Go to the sacred places of the Earth to pray for peace, and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.

  Carlos Barrios

  Animal, People, Giving

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• Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.

  Curt Flood

  Baseball, Thinking, People

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• It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

  C. L. R. James

  People, Deception, Saws

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• Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

  Lance Loud

  Believe, Matter, Sexuality

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• The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Use, Trombone

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• For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Finding The One, Holding On, Equal

  Kathleen McGowan (2012). “The Book of Love”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

  Deena Metzger

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Lakes, Tree, Waterfalls

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• The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Running, Country, Sunshine

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• Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Gambling

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• Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.

  Chapman Cohen

  Religious, Independent, Men

  "The Freethinker", Vol. 84, G.W. Foote,(p. 215), 1964.

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• If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

  Carter Heyward

  Abortion, Serious, Would Be

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• Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Rights, Duty, Indispensable

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• As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you, but honour is the treasure no one can take from you, the shield no one can penetrate unless you let them. Honour is beautiful and clean. Honour is sacred.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Beautiful, Men, Treasure

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• Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Journey, Vocation, Prepared

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