These sanctity quotes will inspire you. Sanctity, the state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly or ultimate importance and inviolability.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging sanctity quotes, sanctity sayings, and sanctity proverbs.
Best Sanctity Quotes
- “Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.” ~ William E. Gladstone
- “There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.” ~ James A. Baldwin
- “They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who’ve been together for twenty-five years can’t get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!” ~ Lea DeLaria
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“In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.” ~ Kofi Annan
- “A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.” ~ Frederick William Robertson
- “To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem… ridiculous.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.” ~ Emma Goldman , Sanctity quotes of life
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“Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.” ~ George W. Bush
- “Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.” ~ John Boehner
- “Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.” ~ Orrin Hatch
- “That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.” ~ Jesse Helms
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“The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.” ~ Henry Waxman
- “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” ~ Jeremiah
- “I believe in the sanctity of marriage.” ~ Sam Brownback
- “To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way she takes you in. It’s a rhythmic thing and a stillness thing to consider but these are little details, little nuances. We were invited to the sanctity of her home and there were roosters running around and she’s screaming, “Jackie, be quiet!” Even though she’s in the middle of the thing. And these are the details that we wanted to incorporate into our story.” ~ Vera Farmiga
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“I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?” ~ George R. R. Martin
- “I respect the courts, but the Supreme Court is only that – the supreme of the courts. It is not the supreme being. It cannot overrule God. When it comes to prayer, when it comes to life, and when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, the court cannot change what God has created.” ~ Mike Huckabee
- “These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don’t give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of. hey go on and on with all this bullshit about “sanctity”—don’t give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.” ~ Clint Eastwood , Sanctity quotes of marriage
- “The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
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“I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.” ~ Mitt Romney
- “The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.” ~ Philip Neri
- “The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.” ~ Bill Vaughan
- “The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal rights as appears in said Constitution, ought to be treated by those to whom the administration of the laws is entrusted with as much sanctity as the prayers of the Saints are treated in heaven, that love, confidence, and union, like the sun, moon, and stars, should bear witness.” ~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.” ~ Saadi
- “It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and that, in the last analysis, your sanctity will never be mine and mine will never be yours, except in the communism of charity and grace. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.” ~ Thomas Merton
- “To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally – graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer Haywood.” ~ Sonny Vaccaro
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“To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.” ~ Josemaria Escriva
- “I honor the sanctity of all religions – I’m not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness. There are many paths to God. What really bothers me – and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity – is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.” ~ Leslie Jordan
- “Any strong Muslim regime that threatens Israel, and we did. He said the Americans only want oil, and, of course, Iraq has the second-largest reserves. And he said that we will always replace God’s law with manmade law. And finally that we intended to occupy and destroy Islamic sanctities. And I suspect that in our government, very few people knew that Iraq was the second-holiest place in Islam, after the Arabian Peninsula.” ~ Michael Scheuer
- “Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature” ~ Thomas Merton
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“The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.” ~ Peter Singer
- “We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.” ~ Zoe Lister-Jones
- “It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man’s city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else’s life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.” ~ Thomas Merton
- “…the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.” ~ Huston Smith
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“All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
- “The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think – that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it’s not America.” ~ Edward R. Murrow
- “Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.” ~ Philip Neri
- “Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.” ~ Daisaku Ikeda
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“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.” ~ David Steindl-Rast
- “John Calvin’s theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.” ~ Marilynne Robinson
- “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.” ~ Carole Keeton
- “On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.” ~ Billy Graham
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“There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.” ~ Jimmy Carter
- “Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.” ~ Otto Weininger
- “Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.” ~ Austin O’Malley
- “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.” ~ V. S. Naipaul
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“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.” ~ David Steindl-Rast
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regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.” ~ Madison Grant - “What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man’s animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God’s sanctity” ~ Georg Brandes
- “We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child’s social origin with its physical well-being.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
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“The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: “What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.”” ~ Peter Kreeft
- “At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “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.” ~ Peter Kreeft
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“The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.” ~ Thomas Merton
- “Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected “radicals” without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail….we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity.” ~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
- “We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship.” ~ Julian Huxley
- “Ruskin’s much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe’s intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.” ~ Kenneth Clark
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“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.” ~ Christopher Morley
- “Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is very definitive in the Christian faith, what we do with sexuality, what we do with marriage, all of the fundamental questions of life have points of reference for answers, and people just have an aversion for that. That I think is the biggest reason they feel hostile towards the Christian faith.” ~ Ravi Zacharias
- “Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him – in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.” ~ Therese of Lisieux
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“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.” ~ William Everson
- “Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.” ~ Albert Pike
- “I believe the family is the foundation of America – and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges.” ~ Mitt Romney
