Consecrates Quotes
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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.
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The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death; He walks with nature and her paths are peace.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 187.
Bharata Natyam is an art which consecrates the body which is considered to be in itself of no value. The Yogi by controlling his breath and by modifying his body acquires the halo of sanctity. Even so, the dancer who dissolves her identity in rhythm and music makes her body an instrument at least for the duration of the dance for the experience and expression of the spirit.
— Dr T. Balasaraswathi quoted in Kali Prasad Goswami (2000). Devad?s?: Dancing Damsel. APH Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 978-81-7648-130-4.
Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.
— Karl Marx, The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, God's-Acre, st. 1 (1842).
God consecrates us with His Spirit; whom He adopts, He anoints; whom He makes sons, He makes saints; He doth not only give them a new name, but a new nature. God turns the wolf into a lamb; He makes the.heart humble and gracious; He works such a change as if another soul did dwell in the same body.
— Thomas Watson,p. 159. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
