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  • A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

  • The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most holy, that is the most sacred thing in life, and if you have made a mess of your life, change it. Change it today, not tomorrow. If you are uncertain, find out why and be certain. If your thinking is not straight, think straight, logically, Unless all that is prepared, all that is settled, you cannot enter into this world, into the world of creation.

  • Work to me is a sacred thing.

    Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.390, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • From The Spiral Dance to Dreaming the Dark to Truth or Dare, Starhawk has led us to places of risk and guided us to think in a new way, a womanly order. Now, in fiction, with the aid of her characters, she will save the earth and all the sacred things that dwell therein.

    Dream   Character   Dark  
  • The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

    Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 7, 2012.
  • ...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.

    Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.60, Penguin
  • 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.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.544, eKitap Projesi
  • Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

    James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.353, Open Road Media
  • For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

  • Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

    Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.119, U of Minnesota Press
  • Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

  • Since the sanctity of the body is so related to the sanctity of sex, why make the body so common? Why expose to the public eye this sacred thing which is the temple of God?

    Sex   Eye   Body  
  • Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

    Children   Play   Healthy  
    J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.88
  • It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

    Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.64, First Avenue Editions
  • And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

    Source: deadline.com
  • In the scriptures the term light-mindedness means making light of sacred things or not taking seriously those eternally significant things that should be treated with reverence (D&C 84:54).

  • Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ilya Schor (1995). “The Earth is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe”, p.14, Jewish Lights Publishing
  • Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

  • But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

    Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.71, LSU Press
  • The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

  • Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

    J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com
  • In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

    L'Ile des pingouins (Penguin Island, 1908) pt. 6, ch. 2
  • And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

    P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

  • My body should only be for my husband and it's just a sacred thing.

    "Interview with Kylie Bisutti: The Former Victoria's Secret Model Shares Her Stiory". Interview with Soraya Eltomey, www.theyouareproject.com. December 21, 2012.
  • Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

  • Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.

    Thinking   Order   May  
    John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.1, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

    "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.
  • There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing you have and any time you can combined labor and love you've really made a match.

    "Diane Sawyer Reminisces About '92 'Super Bowl' Dem Documentary". "Good Morning America" with Diane Sawyer, newsbusters.org. October 7, 2008.
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