Sacred Exchange Quotes

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.