Sacredness Quotes
Sad Quotes about Sacredness

There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving

That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
- Theodore Parker

Confidence...
thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations,
on faithful protection and on unselfish performance.
Without them it cannot live.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the
concept of the sacredness of private property.
- Barbara Castle

Something opens our wings.
Something makes boredom and hurt disappear.
Someone fills the cup in front of us:
We taste only sacredness.
- Rumi

Namaste is a greeting of unity and acceptance
that recognizes the equality of all,
and pays honor to the sacredness of interconnection.
The sense of Namaste is
"The God in me greets the God in you,
I bow to the divine in you."
While saying Namaste, press the palms of the hands together
in front of the heart and bow the head slightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are a continuum.
Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values,
so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead
to our children and their children.
And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
- Paul Tsongas

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite
smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol
before, after and if need be during all meals
and in the intervals between them.
- Winston Churchill

Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully
to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer

Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are only four questions of value in life...
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for,
and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same: only love.
- Johnny Depp as Don Juan in the movie Don Juan De Marco

Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho

Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey

Your sacred space is where you can
find yourself again and again.
- Joseph Campbell

Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred.
Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
- Christina Baldwin

The sacred altar of all existence
is where we meet our ancestors
and our descendants yet unborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Morality and its victim, the mother -
what a terrible picture!
Is there indeed anything more terrible,
more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
- Emma Goldman

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor
is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
- Barbara de Angelis

But let us remember, at the same time,
government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
- Jonathan Mayhew

Story is a sacred visualization,
a way of echoing experience.
- Terry Tempest Williams

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
- Christy Turlington

We make sacred pact. I promise teach
karate to you, you promise learn.
I say, you do, no questions.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

The body is a sacred garment.
- Martha Graham

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational,
existential.
Nothing is sacred.
After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative,
is threatened.
- Archie Shepp

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation.
If you die before the dinner takes place,
your executor must attend.
- Ward McAllister

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty,
brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain,
to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?
- Joseph Howe

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing
harmful can enter except by your permission.
- Arnold Bennett

The bandstand is a sacred place.
- Wynton Marsalis

Nothing is sacred, right?
- Mia Kirshner

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
- Nikki Giovanni

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West,
you have some relationship to the Bible if only through
the names of the characters.
- Anita Diament

Theatre is a sacred space for actors.
You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.
- Greta Scacchi

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil.
Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of
your island country and our neighborhood.
- Michael Jeffery

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred.
There are so many of us for one job it matters little
if 146 of us are burned to death.
- Rose Schneiderman

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately,
but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
- Huston Smith

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music -
not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
- Neville Marriner

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting
it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
- Lance Loud

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
- Georges Bataille

Work to me is a sacred thing.
- Margaret Bourke-White

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the
blood of spiritual evolution.
- Teilhard de Chardin

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the
purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high,
and contained in the sacred writings.
- William Herschel

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men...
in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided
to my illustrious predecessor.
- Martin Van Buren

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
- Bernard Joseph Saurin

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today.
I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor.
That's kind of regrettable.
- Bob Newhart

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me.
I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have,
and then I only let them use my face.
- Gisele Bundchen

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America.
For me, this was a sacred territory.
I would not have ventured into it by myself.
- Walter Salles

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to
do with violating our civil rights.
- Jack Kingston

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred.
I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
- Tom Robbins

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
- Paul Gillmor

People need a sacred narrative.
They must have a sense of larger purpose,
in one form or another, however intellectualized.
They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
- E. O. Wilson

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such.
But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred
music relegated to the scrap heap.
- Richard Morris

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the
most sacred rights in this country.
- Eliot Engel

As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.
- Richard Morris

The new always carries with it the sense of violation,
of sacrilege.
What is dead is sacred; what is new,
that is different,
is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
- Henry Miller

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
- Gunter Grass

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.
Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences
and endowments of the human mind.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs
this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social
Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
- Steve King

The system should treat all user input as sacred.
- Jef Raskin

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a
pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature,
whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
- Desiderius Erasmus

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
- Adrian Cronauer

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most
conservative notions in any culture,
because it seeks to turn other ideas -
uncertainty,
progress, change - into crimes.
- Salman Rushdie

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth.
Through all of them runs, like a red thread,
the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.
- Gustave Meyrink