Sanctity Quotes

It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

I’m a cat. I respect the sanctity of sleep.

There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes less harm, to ourselves, to the other animals, to the planet.

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.

There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.

Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.

One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth.

It means a lot to me, the sanctity of marriage.

There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it? - Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)

Money is a necessity, but not the determinant of a successful life. It is there to secure you, but not to save you! It is there to support you, but not to sanctify you!

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.