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“Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.”

Men Done Taken Subjects Sacred Graves Barbarians

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.”

People Way Difficult Accepting Taken Involved Sacred Traditional Organized Sacred Texts

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.”

Firsts Certain Dark Taken Achieve Sacred Unions Candidates Ritual Beaten Midnight Guru Intercourse Cemetery Hashish

Book:Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

“Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever taken of the old-time chiefs with some of their best words. You can meet these old-timers and share their wisdom. People who read this book will better understand our sacred ways.”

People Way Book Reality Spiritual Spirit Taken Share Red Sacred Photograph Chiefs Indian Inadequate Old Time Timer Old Timers

Author:Thomas Yellowtail

“If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?”

Ifs Book Together Left Taken Constitution Sacred Our Family Family Life Statutes

Author:Benjamin Harrison

“Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.”

Writing Art America Form Artist Taken Musician Sacred Pilgrimage Sacred Places

Author:William Zinsser

“Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.”

Years Real Might Choices Fighting Sleep Walks Struggle Taken Trouble Paid Praise Sacred Abundance Gates Womb Doorways Our Choices Squad

Author:Marge Piercy

“It can be frustrating to see how society has taken the sacred out of everything.”

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Author:Ravi Zacharias

“This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy. But it must fill our churches also outside the timetable of Masses. Indeed, since the Eucharistic mystery was instituted out of love, and makes Christ sacramentally present, it is worthy of thanksgiving and worship. And this worship must be prominent in all our encounters with the Blessed Sacrament, both when we visit our churches and when the sacred species are taken to the sick and administered to them”

Source: Letters to My Brother Priests

“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.”

“The Hindu faith and the information for its sacred books, the Vedas, were taken to the Indian subcontinent by the Aryans from the Caucasus Mountains, one of the centers for extraterrestrials/inner terrestrials and their offspring.”

Book Taken Information Mountain Sacred Indian Hinduism Offspring Vedas Caucasus

Author:David Icke

“And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.”

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Author:Pope Leo I

“I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.”

Men May Stills Force Taken Kings Blessing Sacred Sovereignty Stolen High Places Kingship

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.”

Feels Humans Book Hands Taken Human Nature Reader Civilization Essentials Sacred Meetings Shelves Bookstores Unimaginable Retail Shrines Artifacts

Author:Jason Epstein