Sacred Femininity Quotes

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.

Every girl is a goddess.

Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

It occurs to me: why is it mainly women, who to pass on the faith? Simply because the one who brought us Jesus is a woman. It is the path chosen by Jesus. He wanted to have a mother: the gift of faith comes to us through women, as Jesus came to us through Mary.

Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a beauty that all men love, a virtue that wins all men's souls. That beauty is chastity. Chastity without skin beauty may enkindle the soul; skin beauty without chastity can kindle only the eye. Chastity enshrined in the mold of true womanhood will hold true love eternally.

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.