“Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Any other teaching about the origin and makeup of the universe is so alien to the intentions of the Bible, which does not wish to teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven.” WorldDoeMadeUseOrderUniverseHeavenWishTermTeachTeachingSacredIntentionScriptureAliensMakeupCosmologySacred Scripture Author:Pope John Paul II
“The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.” HumansCoursesHeavenChallengesSacredHolinessRitualFar Away Author:Alma Luz Villanueva
“Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.” LoveFirstsEnoughLastsHeavenYouthPureRegardBlessedSacredForgottenRecollectionBoyhoodThoughts Of You Book:The Works of Charles Dickens Source: The Works of Charles Dickens
“The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.” IfsWorldBelieveHomeMotherHeavenSexWomenPleasureRoomsLordWifeDutyPromiseSacredFortunateFulfillmentBelovedBlissOppositionComing HomeVulgarOur LordJoyousDeservingIdyllicSmall RoomsBeloved Wife Author:Joyce Carol Oates