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“Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.”

Poor Sacred Cows Sacred Cows

Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“The very flowers are sacred to the poor.”

Poor Flower Sacred

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.”

People God Poor Millions Rich Sacred Poor People Distinguished Rich People

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.”

Men Father Poor Rich Son Worship Sacred Secular Homosexual Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Phyllis Chesler

“I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.”

Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

“Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.”

Done Film Science Poor Accounts Sacred Mere Swim Superficial Hero Worship

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness.”

“No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.”

Needs Long Together Faces Joy Humanity Names Poor Sacrifice Sacred Ill

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.”