#acre

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#dying #each #four #life #living

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#being #better #coming #degree #enduring

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#got #nature #nothing #nowadays #out

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres. ↗

— Charles Evers

#alone #forty #got #mule #never

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#any #citizens #duty #enjoyment #exercise

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#arduous #confided #discharged #equal #expect

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? ↗

— Tony Campolo

#church #controlling #especially #government #institution

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people? ↗

— Tony Campolo

#ask #bush #case #government #him

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on. ↗

— Paul Castellano

#care #certain #court #hand #happens