Sanctity Quotes - Page 2

• I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Believe, Issues

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• I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Believe, Understanding

  Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. December 16.

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• Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Sight, Gay Marriage

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Mean, Science, Civilization

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.

  Alex Bruce

  Religious, Winning, Ecosystems

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• [priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

  David Hume

  Character, Religion, Atheism

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.146

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• But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the hymn: 'When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride.'

  Margaret Thatcher

  Responsibility, Loss, Sacrifice

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

  Rod Dreher

  Men, Demand, Death Penalty

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• A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

  George Santayana

  Spirituality, Social, Source

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.265, Рипол Классик

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• But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heroism, Saint

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In that world there is need of spirituality, faith, assurance, the knowledge and love of God. These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, And Love, Needs

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• In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Stars, Men

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• How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

  John Grisham

  Sanctity Of Marriage, Homosexual

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• There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

  Frank Peretti

  Sight, Dignity, Human Life

  "The Veritas Project: Hangman's Curse".

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• The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)

  Wendell Berry

  Practice, Ideas, Two

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• Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's hidden Being." This means that we and all other creatures live by a sanctity that is inexpressibly intimate, for to every creature, the gift of life is a portion of the breath and spirit of God. (pg. 308, Christianity and the Survival of Creation)

  Wendell Berry

  Mean, Greek, Survival

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.308, Counterpoint

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• For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Mean, Self

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.

  Fred Upton

  Abortion, Together, Next

  "Upton hits right tone to win gavel" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. December 07, 2010.

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• And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

  Mitt Romney

  Class, America, Honor

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

  Bhagat Singh

  Expression, Law, Long

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

  Simon Heffer

  America, Giving, Ira

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• In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

  Edward Leigh

  Mother, Pro Life, Modern

  "MPs back 24-week abortion limit", news.bbc.co.uk. May 20, 2008.

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• I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

  Colin Powell

  Gay, Views, Different

  "Powell favors same-sex marriage" by Gregory Wallace, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Loss, People, Special

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.694, Penguin

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• Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Stupid, Russia

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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