Best 542 quotes in «holy quotes» category

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 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 recommend to you holy simplicity.

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

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

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.

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

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 is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

I’ve never seen a man go after a woman like that. Holy sh*t, it’s like porn with the romance.

Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.

Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness.

Let me say that it is not a question of us getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.

Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy.

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

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.

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

My holy of holies is the human body.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

It's a holy city for music.

It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!

I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can't believe I did that, it's like another person. It's the thought of it, it's just appalling to me.

Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.