Holy Quotes

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

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

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.