Sanctity Quotes - Page 8

• Mistaken
  regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
  life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
  are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
  unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.

  Madison Grant

  Law, Race, Community

  Madison Grant (1922). “The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History”

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• Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Flower, Odor

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Perspective, Humanity

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• Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

  Jennifer Beals

  Love Is, People, Definitions

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• I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Thinking, Race, Color

  "Breaking the Cycle". Cairo Times Interview, October 23, 2003.

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• Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of our homes, the order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts. Then will even the merest drudgery of duty cease to humble us, when we transfigure it by the glory of our own spirit.

  James Martineau

  Home, Heart, Humble

  James Martineau (1844). “Endeavors After the Christian Life: A Volume of Discourses”, p.37

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• On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Heart, Biblical

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• As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

  Carole Keeton

  Grandma, Believe, Appreciate

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• There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Real, Artist, Community

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• Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Betrayal, Pain, Lying

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• SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Giving, Peculiar, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.30, North Atlantic Books

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• Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

  George Santayana

  Vices, Genius, Rebellious

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Men, Church, Temples

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secret deceit; who are the same in act as they are in desire; who conceal no thought, no tendencies of thought, from their own conscience; who are faithful and sincere witnesses, before the tribunal of their own judgments, of all that passes within their mind. Such as these shall see God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blessed, Heart, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1972). “Selected Essays on Atheism”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Isn't it human beings who impart vitality to the image in the temple? If no one sculpts the stone, it doesn't become an image. If no one installs it in the temple, it does not acquire any sanctity. If no worship is done, it does not acquire any power. Without human effort there cannot be any temples. What is wrong then in saying that we should view great masters as equal to God? Temples installed by such spiritual masters have a special energy of their own.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Views, Effort

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• It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

  Kurt Bills

  Believe, Government, Liberty

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• Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

  Keith O'Brien

  Government, Support, Pieces

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• Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.

  Regis Debray

  Technology, Understanding, Soul

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• My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

  Jack Kemp

  Children, Miscarriage, Wife

  "In His Own Words: Jack Kemp And The Issues", www.nytimes.com. August 11, 1996.

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• SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eggs, Giving, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it.

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Expression, Holocaust

  "Leader's Address to Air Force Servicemen". www.leader.ir. February 07, 2006.

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• The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage is fast becoming a liberal sacrament, with the proviso it has to involve 'mercy killing.' It took Michael Schiavo's devoted efforts to starve and dehydrate his wife to restore liberal faith in the institution.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Wife, Effort

  "As She Lay Dying". www.wnd.com. March 26, 2005.

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• Lo and behold! God made this
  starry wold,
  The maggot and the mold; lo and
  behold!
  He taught the grass contentment
  blade by blade,
  The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

  Nathalia Crane

  Contentment, Shade, Taught

  "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.

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