Sacredness Quotes

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

There are eleven things which are impure: urine, excrement, sperm, bones, blood, dogs, pigs, non-Moslem men and women, wine, beer, and the sweat of the excrement-eating camel…. Every part of the body of a non-Moslem individual is impure, even the hair on his hand and his body hair, his nails, and all the secretions of his body.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

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.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

Man makes holy what he believes.

I write a woman's oaths in water.

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

God is a verb, not a noun.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.

Nothing is sacred, right?

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.