When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.
even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
To Americans religious freedom is sacred.
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now.
Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred, into the One formless, unmanifested Life. This is why death is such an incredible opportunity. There is no transformation of human consciousness without the dissolving that death brings.
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. . . students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.
Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
My body should only be for my husband and it's just a sacred thing.
Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again.