“So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.” PeopleCareSchoolLiteratureStuffCrazySacredInstanceDamnVersesModernismMutantsFree VerseSchool Experience Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden
“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.” SometimesShowsGovernmentMightLawHouseSpeakEnemyThousandProtectArmySacredPropertySilentInstanceBurningPrivate PropertyInvading Author:Andrew Jackson
“Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.” PeopleWayShouldTwoProcessPowerfulBehaviorSacredForgivingInstanceTwo Ways Author:Sidney Poitier
“I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.” PeopleMindReligionAtheismSacredInstanceIrreverent Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.” WantMusic IsSacredShouldersInstanceVeteranJulietVeterans DaySacred ThingsBreakfast Of ChampionsArmisticeArmistice Day Book:Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday! Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.” WritingHumansFactsScienceRaceExistenceTakenRecordsMankindLowsEvidenceTraditionAccountsSacredScriptureConclusionInstanceHuman RaceDeclarationAntiquityGeologyProfaneMosaics Author:William Buckland
“The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of Catholic Truth, the oft-sounded expression of it. For that very reason the true Church of Christ, even as she shows great zeal to guard inviolate those forms of divine worship - since they are hallowed and are not to be changed - sometimes grants or permits something novel in the performance of them in certain instances. This she does especially when they are in conformity with their venerable antiquity.” DoeSometimesReasonShowsFormCertainVoiceChristChurchNovelChangedDivineExpressionProveWorshipPerformancesCatholicSacredInstanceGrantsConformityCatholicismPermitDogmaZealAntiquityRiteCatholic FaithChurch Of Christ Author:Pope Leo XIII
“To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood. In many instances these images of fear only serve to hold us back in our search for authentic spirituality...Open up your mind and heart to a concept of Spirit who looks out for us, loves us, sheds light on our path, and wants nothing less for us than unconditional happiness.” WantMindLooksHeartGodLightSpiritSpiritualityPathGreaterChildhoodConceptsOur ChildrenSacredImpressionInstanceShedHeart And MindUnconditional Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach