“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had to separate itself into secular hierarchies with secular uniforms and invest these with the absolute authority of a creed. And because, when the secular exalts itself as the absolute, the result is always romanticism, so the real and characteristic romanticism of that age was the cult of the uniform, which implied, as it were, a superterrestrial and supertemporal idea of uniform, an idea which did not really exist and yet was so powerful that it took hold of men far more completely than any secular vocation could, a non-existent and yet so potent idea that it transformed the man in uniform into the property of his uniform, and never into a professional man in the civilian sense; and this perhaps simply because the man who wears the uniform is content to feel that he is fulfilling the most essential function of his age and therefore guaranteeing the security of his own life.”
“The shrine I prayed at not to go to university,” Sand said. “I guess your prayer was answered,” Perrotte said. Sand strongly considered throwing something at her—but there was nothing to hand that wasn’t sacred.”
“Prophecy is True and Sacred and should never be mishandled by people who have no business speaking about Sacred Things in GOD S Name.”
“We live in an environment in which sexuality is often trivialized and defiled, stripped of its emotional depth and divorced from its sacred root.”
“If we keep seeking, we shall find the sacred land.”
“The sacred fire never goes out.”
“Some boundaries are sacred.”
“Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.”
“Witches seek the sacred knowledge the rest of the world has already forgotten.”
“The sacred soul is untouchable.”
“I felt the smile grow from within, starting in my chest and making its way up to my face. If what the guru had said about auras and energy was accurate, I must have been glowing.”
“Every sacred moment is made that way by sacrifice.”
“The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen. the presence of the sacred, is called by its name.”
“Capture the sacred moment.”
“Sacred is greater than science.”
“Time defines sacred events.”
“-... kutsal ancak tekrar yoluyla vardır ve her tekrarda değeri biraz daha artar.- İsfahan halifesi, İki Şölen ya da Anma Töreni”