Sacredness Quotes
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The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays 'Our Father' asks God only for peace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer— 1932 Draft of a new Catechism with F Hildebrandt, in Gesammelte Schriften, vol.3 (1947, translated by E Robinson and J Bowden in No Rusty Sword,1965).
I say that 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— As quoted in Profile at TEDprize.org (2009)
We cannot credit our enjoyment of a flower or of the atmosphere of a room to an autonomous esthetic instinct. Man’s esthetic responsiveness relates in its prehistory to various forms of idolatry; his belief in the goodness or sacredness of a thing precedes his enjoyment of its beauty. The applies no less to such concepts as freedom and humanity.
max horkheimer— p. 36 (Eclipse of Reason (1947))
Let not the usual abstract arguments be brought to me, like the sacredness of life: no one contests the right of everyone to arrange their own life, I don't see why their own death has to be contested.
indro montanelli— cited in Enrico Bonerandi, Montanelli: pronto a morire, la Repubblica, 13 dicembre 2000, p. 36
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 weaver— p. 146 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
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, First Inaugural Address (4 March 1933).
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— Theodore Parker, Two Sermons, Sermon II: Of the Position and Duty of a Minister (1853).
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 grie, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
washington irving— Washington Irving, p. 557. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The kind of connectedness women 's spirituality and goddess spirituality teaches about the earth is missing in politics today and the people who are guiding our countries see only nature as a resource for industrial growth. They don't see the sacredness and the interconnectedness and the simple fact that we live on a finite planet.
— Charlene Spretnak in Goddess Remembered (1989)
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God.' The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
— Frederick William Robertson, p. 193. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
— Basil Hume, The Observer Review (1995)
Last year Cardinal O'Connor said, 'It is my very sincere prayer that if I live for a week, if I live for twenty years, my last breath will be in support for the sacredness of every human life.' As a country, we too, must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence.
— George W. Bush, to the Catholic Press Association Convention, (May 26, 2000).
