Best 542 quotes in «holy quotes» category

Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

My holy of holies is the human body.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

No .... holy father, throw away that thought. Believe not that the dribbling dart of love Can pierce a complete bosom.

Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

Recite Holy Quran, It is the only way.

Relax in the precious arms of the Holy Spirit.

Sanctuaries are magical places - dare I say holy?

Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow. Bless His holy name!

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

Science is our only hope to be the 'Holy Rope' tying man to the existence.

... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.

Success is always the result of following the leading of the Holy Spirit.

That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be introduced into the holy rites of the liturgy.

That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.