Best 542 quotes in «holy quotes» category

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

If the disciples needed to be so endued and to preach the gospel with the Holy Spirit and with the manifestation of the Almighty, are we better than them able to carry on God's work without the empowerment they had?

If there is a God, I want to see him. I don't want to just hear some holy roller shouting about him.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood, the very ground of God. If you can love non-being then nothing can destroy you, you have transcended time and space. Then you have become one with the total, and this is what holiness is - to become whole is to be holy.

If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.

If you have the Holy Spirit and let Him take charge of your life, it doesn't matter what your situation is, He'll turn it around for your good.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as Jewish in my own feelings about mysticism and theology.Franz Kafka is someone I very much revere. If I believed in holy texts I'd go to him as a touchstone. Not that I read Kafka all the time at this point. In a way, this is what I most want to talk about and it's the hardest to talk about.

If you want to be holy, be kind.

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

In any matter where we have questions, we have a right to ask the Holy Spirit to lead us and to expect His gentle guiding.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

I'm of the opinion that we're always on holy ground and some days it's just more apparent.

I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize.

Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse

In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.

In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.

I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up. Don't say that. I was 10, you're 30, it's just weird.

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

I recommend to you holy simplicity.

...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.

I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.

It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

It's a holy city for music.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.