Holy Quotes

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.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

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.

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

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

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.

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

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

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

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

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

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm drawn to punk. I'm drawn to samba a bit. I don't think there's a type of music I'm not drawn to. Lykke Li I really like. Holy Sons I still can't get enough of.

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?'

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

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.

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

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

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

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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.

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

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

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

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

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

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

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed.

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

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.

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

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

Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

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

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

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

Man makes holy what he believes.

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

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the Holy Ghost can strengthen them a little more.

As temples of the Holy Spirit. we should have communion with the Holy Spirit. The work of any believer is not only the work of a human individual, but is actually the work of the Holy Spirit.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

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.

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.