#sacr

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies! ↗

— James McAvoy

#by the time #considered #i #importantly #ladies

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#always #been #death #had #i

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#actions #american #american history #argument #contributions

If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#his #jesus #life #more #path

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#blood #born #does #duty #exist

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#got #i #life #private #private life

Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world. Here, there was the taint of of deepest sin in the most sacred of quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#motherhood #sacred #sin #beauty

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty. ↗

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

#beauty

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#based #children #deny #denying #gender