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Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. -- Jonathan Haidt
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. -- Theodore Parker
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. -- Paul Tsongas
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. -- Rumi
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
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -- Washington Irving
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
There is a sacredness in tears -- Washington Irving
All is known in the sacredness of silence. -- Rumi
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. -- Washington Irving
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death -- Pope Francis
The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life. -- Paul Pearsall
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
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
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. -- Andrew Carnegie
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
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
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
Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible; on the political side, the Constitution. -- Herbert Hoover
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source. -- Thomas Merton
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination. -- Immanuel Kant
Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit. -- S.M. Stirling
Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature -- Eckhart Tolle
Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property. -- Barbara Castle
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
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
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
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
When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame. -- Orison Swett Marden
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
The greatest sacredness is great love. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The sacredness of existence is spiritual. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Embrace the sacredness of a new day. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We ought to celebrate the sacredness of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
May the sacredness of Christmas gladden your heart. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Love melts my heart in the sacredness of its pureness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In the sacredness of pureness; a spark of divinity manifest. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane. -- Dogen
May we celebrate the sacredness of Christmas with joy, faith and hope. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier. -- Laozi
We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life. -- Basil Hume
Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs. -- Steve Ilg
The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place. -- Henry David Thoreau
To see the first sun rise in New Year is the most sacredness of existence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth. -- Gary Paul Nabhan
The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom. -- Rebecca Adamson
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization. -- Matilda Joslyn Gage
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys). -- Daniel Brook
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life. -- Leon Trotsky
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. -- Jim Harrison
The sacredness of Christmas: glory to God in the highest holy heavens, peace on earth and goodwill to all people. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. -- Dean Ornish
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church. -- Edvard Munch
We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war. -- Kofi Annan
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
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
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
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
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
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. -- John Locke
The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness - and we are utilizing that sacredness. -- Christine McCormick Day
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
Religion isnâ??t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. Itâ??s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. -- Karen Armstrong
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
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
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God. -- Theodore Parker
I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done. -- D. H. Lawrence
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
It is a duty of every citizen to pray for those who are authority and the nation; so that each one of us may live a peaceful and quiet lives in sacredness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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

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