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Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate
Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.
Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.
Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.
I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
My aim has always been to defend the secular foundation of our nation and the poor of our country - the creed sacred to Indiraji and Rajivji.
I don't care how sacred is freedom, but I think the time has come for governments, at least the Malaysian government, to censor the Internet.
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.
Just because I give you a piece of me doesn't mean you get it all. There's very few people in my life who get it all, and that's sacred to me.
I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie.
The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out against gay marriage. He said marriage is a sacred union between a groupie and any number of body builders.
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
I am only interested in being famous for my dancing. For me, the concept of the sacred monster is only about the stage - it is not about image.
As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.
The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred.
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like a wave.
God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
'Lincoln' was a very sacred workplace. Everyone did a lot of research for that movie and wanted to show up informed and ready to enter that world.
It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.
Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.
For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the cause of the Juche revolution.
But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.
What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.
I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.
How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?