Sacred Quotes - Page 6

• The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Education, Fear, Military

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• The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred and worthy of your love, respect and intention. Take good care of it and nourish it with the most healing, life-sustaining foods, experiences, and sensory impressions.

  David Simon

  Healing, Creative, Body

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• The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed.

  Julia Child

  Happy Times, Together, Dinner

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• We are the higher synthesis of the union of the archetypal Mother and Father. As we recognize the divinity within ourselves, we see it in each other and all around us. Through this realization, the world becomes sacred again, infused with intelligence, spirit, and a grand plan for evolutionary awakening.

  Anodea Judith

  Inspirational, Mother, Father

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• I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Children, Duty, Educate

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2015). “Beethoven: As Revealed in His Own Words”, p.48, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Trust, Universal, Transcendent

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• We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the future generations of humankind that will need to be refreshed, renewed and healed by them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Animal

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• The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

  Sam Keen

  Moving, Technology, Reality

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
  [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

  Abba Eban

  Horse, Groups, Research

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• The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

  Sam Harris

  Yesterday, Reason

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Selfish, Men, Rights

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• There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

  Nat Hentoff

  Life Is, Seamless

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• A noble truth is a sacred creed.

  Bob Dylan

  Expression, Noble, Truth Is

  Song: Tweedle Dee And Tweedle Dum

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• There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Lying, Garden, Religion

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

  May Sarton

  Body, Forget, Creation

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• Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Religious, Men, Unions

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons”, p.212

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• Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

  Joan Miro

  Religious, Art, Hands

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• Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting. Every step of the way is an arrival, but not a place to linger.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Travel, Journey, Each Day

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• Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wall, Race, Feelings

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• The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Art, Miracle, Exaltation

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• Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Rain, Two, Vines

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• It doesn't have to be somber to be sacred.

  David Wolpe

  Somber

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• This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

  Curtis White

  Understanding, Ongoing, Process

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• The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Perfect

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friendship, Marriage, Passion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9049, Delphi Classics

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