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All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now?
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.
Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
It is our sacred obligation to eliminate the curse of poverty in the shortest possible time. This is non-negotiable for the Republic.
Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.
The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart.
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.
As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.
You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.
Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
Your Friday and Saturday nights are sacred. When a new guy asks for a prime-time date early on, suggest drinks and make him the warm-up.
What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.