#sacr

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#creation #fellowship #god #hearing #joy

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#dwell #own #path #possibility #privilege

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#before #boy #captain #collecting #competing

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#guard #national #national guard #ones #only

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#committed #europe #head #history #horrors

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#brothers #children #college #families #feel

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#heart #love #sacrifice #sanctify #temple

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#again #book #dead #dog #feet

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#artist #does #doing #help #himself

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#ascetic #deceives #deplorable #egotism #giving