Sanctity Quotes - Page 9

• All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Men, Political

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1957). “Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”, p.59, Westminster John Knox Press

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• ...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

  Huston Smith

  Different, Destination, Avenues

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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• Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Jesus, Father, Unity

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• The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Ideas, Evil

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.80, Vintage

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• It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.

  Thomas Merton

  Humility, Journey, Men

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• Since the sanctity of the body is so related to the sanctity of sex, why make the body so common? Why expose to the public eye this sacred thing which is the temple of God?

  Mark E. Petersen

  Sex, Eye, Body

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• Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

  Antonin Scalia

  Burning, Bedroom, Bans

  "High court takes up Virginia cross-burning case" by William Mears, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2002.

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• Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Party, Hands

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• Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to provide stability for children. For people who live by the clear teaching of many different faith traditions and people who simply believe in the sanctity of marriage, it is essential that their views are respected.

  James Lankford

  Children, Believe, Teaching

  "Senate Values Action Team Responds to SCOTUS Marriage Decision". James Lankford's comments in response to the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, www.frcblog.com. June 26, 2015.

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• Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Art, Thoughtful

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• Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

  Philip Neri

  Men, Desire, May

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.33, St Athanasius Press

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• George Bush says that gay people getting married would violate the sanctity of marriage. Is anybody here married? Does it feel like a gift from God to you?

  Greg Giraldo

  Gay, People, Doe

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• Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

  Dana Gould

  Holiness, Bachelors, Heterosexual Marriage

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• There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

  Rahman Baba

  Doubt, Mecca, Hajj

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• The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Mother, Tongue, Return

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Perseverance, Firsts, Persevere

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• I am proudly pro-life and believe that science is proving those who believe in the sanctity of life right every day. A majority of Americans now agree that abortion after five months for any reason is wrong.

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Pro Life, Abortion

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Any strong Muslim regime that threatens Israel, and we did. He said the Americans only want oil, and, of course, Iraq has the second-largest reserves. And he said that we will always replace God's law with manmade law. And finally that we intended to occupy and destroy Islamic sanctities. And I suspect that in our government, very few people knew that Iraq was the second-holiest place in Islam, after the Arabian Peninsula.

  Michael Scheuer

  Strong, Islamic, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness. There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.

  Leslie Jordan

  Kindness, Believe, Thinking

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally - graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer Haywood.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Basketball, College, Years

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Ideas, People

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

  Peter Kreeft

  Listening, World, Care

  Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli (2009). “Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics”, p.11, InterVarsity Press

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• Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Opportunity, Years, Giving

  "Dems still don't have an ObamaCare answer for midterms" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sex, Sleep, Heart

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• To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Mom, Light, Hands

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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