Sacred Quotes
I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...
Show MoreI do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon t...
Show MoreJocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of...
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Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had a...
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A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help...
Show MoreI've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...
Show MoreBelieve in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth...
Show MoreIn the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta...
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The library remains a sacred place for secular folk ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do," The New York R...
Show More[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece...
Show MoreWhen they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...
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There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the...
Show MoreThe body is a sacred garment.
What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We shoul...
Show MoreI tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confide...
Show MoreI learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple -- or a green field -- a place to enter, and in whi...
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In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be cl...
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The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely beca...
Show MoreHad there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so ...
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I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodne...
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of th...
Show MoreTo the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profit...
Show MoreWho would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by h...
Show MoreSacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secul...
Show MoreThe nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that...
Show MoreWisdom is a sacred communion.
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false...
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If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid i...
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There is no less holiness at this time- as you are reading this- than there was on the day the Red S...
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