Holy Quotes

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

Holy cow!

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

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

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

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

He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.