Oscar Wilde Quotes

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

Either all days are holy or none are.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Christmas is a day on which more sin and sacrilege and pagan foolishness is committed than on any other day of the year.

Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

My holy of holies is the human body.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.'

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

The very flowers are sacred to the poor.

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads