The next time you get scared, get sacred!
When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.
The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise
There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law,I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on. Some of the promises,it's true,you make to young,before you really have an understanding of what they mean. But once you've made those first promises,other promises are called for. And the thing is you can't deny the new ones without betraying the old ones. The promises get bigger,there are more people to be hurt and disappointed if you don't live up to them. Then, at some point, your called upon to make a promise to a dying man.
I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. You know, many people are interested in alternative health who are never going to become doctors, or practitioners. That is how I am about politics. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.
Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.
Meeting another human is always a sacred event.
One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ. . . than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office
The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
The body is a sacred garment.
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.
Loyalty is something you should always hold sacred in your heart.
The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.