“The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron -- and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring -- embody the American dream of Eden.” DreamFieldsDegreesBlessedSacredCourtTrackRingsHillsDiamondAmerican DreamEdenPlaying FieldsFortsVaultsStock ExchangeGridiron Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
“In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.” KindMayFactsLawOrderDutyDegreesElementsStandardsEternitySacredLaysDeterminedObligationSettlingFixedSovereignBeing ThereRandom Thoughts Author:Horace Bushnell
“Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.” MayHas BeensAbleLawVirtueRightsCrimeLimitsDegreesSacredExtremesInnocence Author:Jean Racine
“Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.” StatesInterestReligiousDangerDegreesSacredProofGravesConvincingReligious Freedom Author:Frank Murphy
“We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to live the law of obedience. We are under covenant to live the law of sacrifice. We are under covenant to live the law of consecration. It is our privilege to consecrate our time, talents, and means to build up his kingdom. We are called upon to sacrifice, in one degree or another, for the furtherance of his work. Obedience is essential to salvation; so, also, is service; and so, also, are consecration and sacrifice.” MeanMadeLawSacrificeTalentHolyEssentialsDegreesAngelSacredSalvationPrivilegeKingdomsObedienceOur TimeSolemnCovenantConsecration Author:Bruce R. McConkie
“The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation of society. It is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness. It's a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights and older than our political parties. One of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause. A right of intimacy to the degree of being sacred. And a liberty right equally available to a person in a homosexual relationship as to heterosexual persons.” PersonsSaidImportantPoliticalProcessPartyLibertyRightsEssentialsDegreesRelationFoundationSacredBillsCourtAvailableDuesPursuitSupremeIntimacyPrivacyProtectedHomosexualSupreme CourtPolitical PartiesPursuit Of HappinessOrderlyBill Of RightsClausesDue Process Author:Ted Olson
“The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.” ShouldEarthHolyDegreesSacredTreatedHolinessTemplesReverenceHoly Places Author:L. Lionel Kendrick
“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.” TogetherDegreesSacredEndureHopefullyIntimateAnniversaryComing Together Author:William O. Douglas