Sacred Sports Quotes & Sayings

There can be no doubt that the blessing, of which believers are heirs, is justification by faith; and that the promise, according to which they are heirs of this blessing, is the gospel promise made to Abraham. — Adoniram Judson

What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other. — Elizabeth Lesser

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying. — Jackie Robinson

Healthy life is a sacred being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about. — J.A. Konrath

WHAT A SHOCK WHEN THEY TELL YOU
IT WON'T HURT AND YOU ALMOST
TURN INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY BEGIN. — Jenny Holzer

Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone. — Jeffrey Goldberg

Losing all hope was freedom. — Chuck Palahniuk

Forgiving is not easy when you're still hurting. — Ann Marie Aguilar

He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was. — William Gibson

Your body is a sacred-temple of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod. — Henry Lawson

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know. — A. Bartlett Giamatti