Top 100 Quotes About Sacredness
#1. Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. But come to California. Come to these canyons if you want to be driven by sacredness into the air. If you dream of the true, clear silences, if you want those silences to sing - come to California.
Denis Johnson
#3. If you study the scriptures continually, you find sacredness of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#4. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
#6. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Theodore Parker
#8. Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise.
Elora Bishop
#9. It's easy to assume that because what we are doing is familiar, we are the least valuable part of the church. But God doesn't see it that way. And we need to remember the sacredness of what we are doing as we mother.
Erin Davis
#10. But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there's a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable. It is a fact.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#11. Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
S.M. Stirling
#12. It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.
Misty Upham
#13. Any nation that neglects teaching the sacredness of life and the family does so at its own peril. Any nation that sanctions the removal of God's boundaries will destroy its own.
Ravi Zacharias
#14. 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
#15. May we celebrate the sacredness of Christmas with joy, faith and hope.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#18. When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself.
Phillip Moffitt
#19. In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).
Daniel Brook
#20. Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle to the ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples and the sacredness of creation.
Rebecca Adamson
#21. When the "sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.
John Stuart Mill
#22. The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#23. The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.
Paul Pearsall
#24. Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
Jonathan Haidt
#26. Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.
Ellen G. White
#27. Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality that comes from the bedrock of lore from which they emerged.
Gerald Hausman
#28. In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
Dogen
#29. O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
Henry Ward Beecher
#30. Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.
Steve Ilg
#31. Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless ... Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors ... for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.
Rumi
#32. Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
Frederick William Robertson
#33. When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.
Eckhart Tolle
#34. The Saviour saved me. So I can serve God without fear, in sacredness as long as I live.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#35. Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.
Brennan Manning
#38. All is known in the sacredness of silence.
Rumi
#39. Enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.
Neil Postman
#40. And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life.
Ronald Reagan
#41. Whether you accept or reject the idea of God, the sacredness of all life is a goal devoutly to be wished
Carlton D. Pearson
#42. Today, look at the blue sky, hear the grass growing beneath your feet, inhale the scent of spring, let the fruits of the earth linger on your tongue, reach out and embrace those you love. Ask Spirit to awaken your awareness to the sacredness of your sensory perceptions.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#43. Love is sacred. Beauty is sacred. Flowers are sacred. Birds are sacred. And sacredness brings the perfume of love and compassion. Therefore love and compassion is the perfume of sacredness. It sounds rather poetic, but ... God IS poetry.
Vasant Lad
#44. Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
Karen Armstrong
#45. To cultivate the sacredness and sanctity of each day, serve others in some way.
Robin S. Sharma
#46. I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person,
and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.
Pope John Paul II
#48. Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you.
Robin S. Sharma
#49. As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the "sacredness of human life" remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
Leon Trotsky
#50. The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#51. Whatever its origins, the psychology of sacredness helps bind individuals into moral communities.42 When someone in a moral community desecrates one of the sacred pillars supporting the community, the reaction is sure to be swift, emotional, collective, and punitive. To
Jonathan Haidt
#52. It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.
Richard M. Weaver
#53. Madame Olga began muttering something under her breath in gypsy to the effect of "Fucking debutantes, they do not understand the sacredness of the moment." But everyone in the room just thought this was part of her gypsy spirit chant.
Amy Ephron
#54. Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.
Pope John Paul II
#55. In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.
Sigurd F. Olson
#56. 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
#58. The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.
Sue Monk Kidd
#59. The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.
Rebecca Adamson
#61. This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.
Anne Lamott
#62. I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
Karen Armstrong
#63. Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#65. As the conjugal act cannot be spoken of aloud for reasons both sacred and profane, the ritual of the pipe was, for the pair of them, a holy ritual that was unspeakable and mortified, just as it was ecstatic and divine: its sacredness lay in its very profanity, and its profanity, in its sacred form.
Eleanor Catton
#66. I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#69. I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.
Gunilla Brodde Norris
#71. Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi
#72. 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
#73. Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature
Eckhart Tolle
#74. Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
Dean Ornish
#75. You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.
Mother Teresa
#76. May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul.
May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and
renewal to those Who work with you and to those who see
and receive your work. May your work never weary you.
John O'Donohue
#77. The call to protect life - and not merely life but another's identity; it is perhaps not too much to say another's soul - was obvious in its sacredness.
Paul Kalanithi
#78. When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.
Eckhart Tolle
#79. There is a reality in blessing, which I take baptism to be, primarily. It doesn't enhance sacredness, but it acknowledges it, and there is a power in that.
Marilynne Robinson
#81. Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
Jonathan Haidt
#82. I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
Jim Harrison
#83. Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.
Albert Pike
#84. What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities - the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce.
Joel Kotkin
#85. Rather, my research on the moral emotions has led me to conclude that the human mind simply does perceive divinity and sacredness, whether or not God exists.
Jonathan Haidt
#87. The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the individual; their tendency is to sink the individual in the mass, to sacrifice his rights, and to immolate him on the altar of some fancied good.
Angelina Grimke
#90. I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings.
Robert Englund
#91. We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
Basil Hume
#93. That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
Paul Tsongas
#94. We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.
Kofi Annan
#95. In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness
Malebo Sephodi
#96. The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
Edvard Munch
#97. Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.
Gary Paul Nabhan
#98. There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
#99. Women need the archetypal image of a Divine Female. We need to reconnect with the inherent sacredness of woman as creator and nourisher, rather than accept a vision of ourselves as less-than-divine inferiors.
Layne Redmond
#100. Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
Barbara Castle
