Holy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you get inside go change into something loose and baggy. And for all that's holy, please wear panties and a bra.
-- Abbi Glines -
Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
-- Abu Bakr -
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
-- Adam Clarke -
The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
-- Alan Watts -
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 -
The same Holy Spirit who implants faith within a life implants the boldness to verbalize that faith.
-- Alistair Begg -
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
-- Alistair Cooke -
There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.
-- Amish Tripathi -
Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.
-- Andrew Murray -
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
-- Andy Stanley -
It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
-- Anita Diament -
I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.
-- Ann M. Dibb -
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture
-- B. B. Warfield -
Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.
-- Billy Carter -
The Holy Spirit is profoundly committed to restoring the first commandment to first place in our lives.
-- Bob Sorge -
Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.
-- Bob Ufer -
Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.
-- Bonnie L. Oscarson -
Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
-- Bonnie L. Oscarson -
... God... is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man...
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
God stands revealed or remains forever unknown.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.
-- Callimachus -
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
-- Carl E. Olson -
Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.
-- Catherine McAuley -
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.
-- Charles Kingsley -
Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
-- Charles Simeon -
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
-- Christina Rossetti -
Sanctuaries are magical places - dare I say holy?
-- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau -
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.
-- Curtis Hutson -
This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.
-- Cyprian -
If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
-- D. A. Carson -
Those who refuse to change and to modify are refusing to be recipients of the anointing.
-- Dag Heward-Mills -
If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.
-- Daniel Taylor -
You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.
-- David Lloyd-Jones -
There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.
-- David Lloyd-Jones -
When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.
-- David Wilkerson -
I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.
-- Deborah Eisenberg -
We can not effectively serve God without the Holy Spirit.
-- Derek Prince -
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.
-- Eliza R. Snow -
And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
-- Enoch -
We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.
-- Eric Hoffer -
The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.
-- Francesco Cossiga -
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
-- Francois Fenelon -
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.
-- Frank Miller -
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
-- Galileo Galilei -
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
-- Gautama Buddha -
I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.
-- George Carey -
If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
-- George Muller -
The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.
-- George Muller -
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.
-- George Muller -
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.
-- George Muller -
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.
-- George Seaton -
Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.
-- Gertrude the Great -
What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?
-- Grantly Dick-Read -
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
-- Harlan Ellison -
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.
-- Harry Caray -
Then stars arise, and the night is holy.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy....
-- Hippocrates -
When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.
-- Ichabod Spencer -
The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
-- Ilona Andrews -
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
-- Jacob K. Javits -
Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
-- James H. Cone -
Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
-- James McHenry -
Holy [Insert your choice of a swear word here]," said Fang stunned.
-- James Patterson -
The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.
-- James Taylor -
Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.
-- Jennifer Niven -
When the Holy Spirit calls your to fast, He is preparing you for what is ahead.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.
-- Joan D. Chittister -
You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
-- Johannes Tauler -
Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
-- John Burroughs -
We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.
-- John Fletcher -
The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.
-- John Nelson Darby -
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
-- John Owen -
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
-- John Owen -
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.
-- John Ruskin -
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
-- John Stott
