Sacredness Quotes - Page 4

• We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, War, Home

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• And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Evil, Abortion

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• Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spring, Blue, Sky

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Giving, Pro Life, Grace

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• Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Practice, People, Together

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.257, Vintage

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• Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

  Dean Ornish

  Special, Despair, Nihilism

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• In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Music, Giving, People

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• I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

  Jim Harrison

  Self, Understanding, Losing

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

  Dogen

  Sacred, Mundane

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• Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle to the ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples and the sacredness of creation.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Technology, Circles, Full Circle

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• The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their child to be murdered, their sense for the sacredness of maternity. Abortion not only murders the innocent; it spiritually murders women... the wound created in their souls is so great that only God's grace can heal it. The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Children, Taken, Abortion

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• In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

  Daniel Brook

  Native American, Turkeys, Together

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• Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species.

  Dennis Banks

  Believe, Native American, People

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• Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing even the abc of sacredness, without knowing anything about the eternal. Our intentions were good but our understanding was very small, almost negligible. So instead of marriage becoming something of a heaven, it has become a hell. Instead of becoming sacred, it has fallen even below profanity.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Knowing, Heaven

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• Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature.

  Simon Schama

  Funny, Animal, Thinking

  "Preview", www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2007.

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• I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task of existence: the propagation of the species. I saw woman as the personification of nature, as Isis, and man as her priest, her slave; and I pictured her treating him as cruelly as Nature, who, when she no longer needs something that has served her, tosses it away, while her abuses, indeed her killing it, are its lascivious bliss.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Isis, Abuse

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• The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.

  Paul Pearsall

  Together, Principles, Hawaii

  Paul Pearsall (1996). “The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, to Work, to Play-- Life in the Balance”, p.54, Hunter House

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• Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

  Gary Paul Nabhan

  Earth, Way, Eating

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• Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

  Brennan Manning

  Solitude, Identity, Juicy

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.39, NavPress

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• As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lying, Long, Principles

  Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek, Henry Noel Brailsford (2007). “Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky”, Verso Books

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• The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason

  Steven Pinker

  Uplifting, People, Soul

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.170, Penguin

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• This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

  Anne Lamott

  Easter, Sisterhood, Brotherhood

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• Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Realization

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.1, New Directions Publishing

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• The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ifs

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Men, Inspire

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