Sacredness Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

  Laozi

  People, Spirituality, Hundred

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• Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

  Eckhart Tolle

  Majesty, Needed

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.96, New World Library

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• In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Men, Fire

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.302

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• A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Shoes, Meditation

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• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

  Leon Trotsky

  Vegetarian, Quaker, Human Life

  Leon Trotsky (2014). “The Defence of Terrorism (Routledge Revivals): Terrorism and Communism”, p.60, Routledge

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• The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Father, War, Church

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