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Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. -- George W. Bush
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. -- Orrin Hatch
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. -- William Hazlitt
Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less. -- Ronald Rolheiser
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. -- James A. Baldwin
Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life. -- John Boehner
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought. -- Henry Waxman
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. -- Emma Goldman
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. -- Kofi Annan
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful. -- Frederick William Robertson
I believe in the sanctity of marriage. -- Sam Brownback
People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell. -- Thomas Merton
The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness. -- John Foley
That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage. -- Jesse Helms
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved! -- Lea DeLaria
Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature -- Thomas Merton
The free world has need that its foreign policies should fairly measure the realities of the world in which we live. There are certain principles to which we hold: the sanctity of treaties, good faith between nations, the interdependence of peoples from which no country, however powerful, can altogether escape. -- Anthony Eden
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized. -- Elisabeth Elliot
An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say. -- Peter Kreeft
Each of you has a personal vocation which He has given you for your own joy and sanctity. When a person is conquered by the fire of His gaze, no sacrifice seems too great to follow Him and give Him the best of ourselves. This is what the saints have always done, spreading the light of the Lord ... and transforming the world into a welcoming home for everyone. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. -- George Santayana
Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor? -- Dana Gould
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We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality. -- Peter Kreeft
I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb. -- Chris Smith
My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship. -- Ravi Shankar
Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion. -- Fred Upton
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions. -- Rahman Baba
Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity. -- Jan Hus
Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value. -- John Leo
I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them. -- Colin Powell
Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government. -- James Dobson
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. -- Pope Francis
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue. -- Ben Shapiro
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion. -- Mitt Romney
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. -- Robert Gottlieb
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. -- William E. Gladstone
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone. -- Cate Blanchett
If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia. -- Gary Bauer
Indu'd With sanctity of reason. -- John Milton
Perfectionism doesn't have much to do with sanctity. -- Father Jacques Philippe
I'm a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep. -- Rick Riordan
I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life. -- Mitt Romney
Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity. -- Philip Neri
Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity. -- Robert J. Shiller
The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom. -- Antonin Scalia
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. -- Andrew Schneider
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes." -- William Everson
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes. -- William Everson
How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals? -- John Grisham
A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary. -- George Santayana
...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it. -- Huston Smith
Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. -- Reif Larsen
Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are. -- Henry Ward Beecher
As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life. -- Desmond Tutu
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. -- Saadi
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. -- Peter Singer
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. -- Otto Weininger
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. -- Honore de Balzac
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine. -- Thomas Merton
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common. -- Miguel de Unamuno
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. -- Leo Tolstoy
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity. -- George Sarton
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. -- David Hume
In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity. -- Edward Leigh
My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start. -- Chloe Neill
The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people. -- Bhagat Singh
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. -- Sophie Swetchine
Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity. -- Ambrose Bierce
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books. -- Lev Grossman
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of lifeâ??s sanctity, is a â??civil warâ? waged by humanity against itself. -- Daisaku Ikeda
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life. -- Simon Heffer
a truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual -- Frank Peretti
What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth. -- Thomas Friedman
Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again. -- Kim Harrison
I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person. -- George W. Bush
At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough. -- Rod Dreher
Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.... -- William Butler Yeats
Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture. -- Ann Coulter
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say." -- Peter Kreeft
But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness. -- Peter Kreeft
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America. -- Edward R. Murrow
I don't know why some people get worked up about gay people marrying. It's not gay people who are ruining the sanctity of marriage, it's celebrities. -- Craig Ferguson
The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity. -- Philip Neri
It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall. -- Dan Harmon
We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil. -- Allen West
Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well. -- Anthony Mary Claret
If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured. -- Kurt Eichenwald
I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues. -- George W. Bush
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the Land of Israel for them. -- David Novak
My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is. -- Jack Kemp
Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life. -- Mitt Romney
George Bush says that gay people getting married would violate the sanctity of marriage. Is anybody here married? Does it feel like a gift from God to you? -- Greg Giraldo
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty. -- James Dobson
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else. -- Thomas Merton
I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man. -- Albert Camus
Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution. -- John Thune
We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity. -- Omar Bakri Muhammad
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human. -- Christopher Morley
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists... -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest? -- George R. R. Martin
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there. -- V. S. Naipaul
Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people. -- Jennifer Beals
Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community. -- David Steindl-Rast
It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions. -- Wallace Stegner
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance. -- Josemaria Escriva
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. -- Ambrose Bierce
Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade. -- Nathalia Crane
I believe in giving kindness, regardless of how unreasonable and self-centered a person is. Kindness is a gift of sanctity for a person. It has the goal of making the soul smile. -- Lionel Suggs
It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously. -- Naomi Oreskes

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