Sacred Quotes - Page 39

• It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.

  Demi Moore

  Mother, Moving, Heart

  "Demi Moore says she is divorcing Kutcher", www.cnn.com. November 18, 2011.

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• A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.

  A. R. Gurney

  Funny, Friendship, Dog

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• RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Exercise, Republic, Fables

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2491, Delphi Classics

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• Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Family, Men, Cities

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• The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Ego, Pests

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• I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religion, Secular

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Men, Views

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, Teaching, Good Luck

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• There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

  David Starr Jordan

  Animal, Men, Rights

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• The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Hands, People, May

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.232, Routledge

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• Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common.

  Ellen G. White

  Passion, Men, Giving

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• Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

  Clay Shirky

  Years, Erotic, Printing

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• Whoever is willing to enter the magic path should regard it as his sacred duty to practice regular exercises. He ought to be kind, generous and tolerant with his fellow men, but relentless and hard with himself. Only such behavior will be followed by success in magic.

  Franz Bardon

  Exercise, Men, Practice

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• Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

  David Quammen

  People, Monsters, Lions

  David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God

  Abraham Kuyper

  Passion, Home, School

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• The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other...consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost for all time.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Mean, Men, Opportunity

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo”, p.16, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

  William Holmes McGuffey

  Apology, Sacred Scripture, Source

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• The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

  Sam Keen

  Moving

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• Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.

  Martha Brooks

  Memories, Matter, Heal

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• It’s walking the razor’s edge of the sacred moment where you don’t know, you can’t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given. In that sense, this radical uncertainty liberates your creativity and courage.

  Joanna Macy

  Creativity, Comfort, Razors

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• You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.

  Joe Dumars

  Years, Three, Cows

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• But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

  Wayne White

  Art, Frustration, Thinking

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• If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.

  Daniel Taylor

  Bones, Holy, Description

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• This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down.

  Marilyn Manson

  Names, White, Risk

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• I express my profound thanks to a loving Heavenly Father who gives to you, to me, and to all who sincerely seek, the knowledge that death is not the end, that His Son--even our Savior Jesus Christ--died that we might live. Temples of the Lord dot the lands of many countries. Sacred covenants are made. Celestial glory awaits the obedient. Families can be together forever.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Country, Jesus, Father

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