sacred act Quotes

Voting is a civic sacrament.

Well, by accepting that sex is a physical manifestation of God, and that is not a sin-it is a blessing.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

By shrewdly linking procreation to an act likely to make you stupid with excitement, God has seen to it that Life does indeed go on. It's possible, by the way, that this is why God's name comes up so often in the middle of the act; it's a salute to the author: Hey, whoever made this up - thanks.

And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.

Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Such a Saint, such an offering.

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.