Quotes of Holy - somelinesforyou

“ A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire. ”

- Voltaire

“ Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. ”

- Hippocrates

“ This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. ”

- Voltaire

“ The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God. ”

- E.M. Bounds

“ You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life. ”

- St. Vincent Pallotti

“ When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.". ”

- Sir William Blake

“ All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. ”

- Communist Manifesto

“ The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. ”

- Saint Jerome

“ Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. ”

- Alice Walker

“ What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. ”

- Rabbi Abraham Heschel

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

- Wendell Berry

“ When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls. ”

- Rabbi Harold Kushner

“ When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy. ”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

“ Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them? ”

- Buddha

“ To forgive is holy To forget takes restraint To forget what you forgave is the mark of a true saint. ”

- Anonoymous

“ To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ”

- Stephen R. Covey

“ Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah! ”

- Latin Hymn of the 15th century

“ A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. ”

- Anthony Burgess
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