Contact
Privacy
Category: sacred
Quotes of Category: sacred
TOP TAGS :strifeobituaryessentialget-lostnegativityexploitationmalfoycollective

  1. Alister E. McGrath _ Christianity's Dangerous Idea:

    From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted as a claim for the desacralization of the sacred, it can equally well be understood as a claim for the sacralization of the secular. As early as 1520, Luther had laid the fundamental conceptual foundations for created sacred space within the secular. His doctrine of the 'priesthood of all believers' asserted that there is no genuine difference of status between the 'spiritual' and the 'temporal' order. All Christians are called to be priests - and can exercise that calling within the everyday world. The idea of 'calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world.
    book-quoteworkchristianityvocation

  2. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    People surprise you sometimes.
    book-quotepeoplequotessacred

  3. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.
    book-quotequoteshonorsacred

  4. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.
    book-quotesacred

  5. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.
    book-quoterespectphilosophyintellect

  6. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire. Cooking. All those soufflés, all that crème caramel, all those daubes and albóndigas and gumbos. Clean sheets, stacks of clean towels, hurricane lamps for storms, enough water and food to see us through whatever geological event came our way. were the words that came to mind then. These fragments mattered to me. I believed in them. That I could find meaning in the intensely personal nature of life as a wife and mother did not seem inconsistent with finding meaning in the vast indifference of geology and the test shots.
    book-quoteeveryday-lifemeaningroutine

  7. John O'Donohue _ Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic

    The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.
    book-quotesoulreflectionsecret
Categories