There is a sacredness in tears

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.

The veils have become very thin and we are now able to access a large part of our sacredness - and we are utilizing that sacredness.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human life.

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.

For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the term 'testimony' is a warm and familiar word in our religious expressions. It is tender and sweet. It has always a certain sacredness about it. When we talk about testimony, we refer to feelings of our heart and mind rather than an accumulation of logical, sterile facts.

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