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Quotes About Wholly

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.
~ Mircea Eliade
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed, but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
~ Bliss Carman
Evil endured. She knew it did, and Xavier was wholly evil.
~ Christine Feehan
I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you -- are you sure that man can conquer until he has been wholly defeated? Are you sure that he can find plenitude till he has known utter despair? You will not let him despair of himself, but it may be that only in such a complete despair he finds that which cannot despair and is something other than man.
~ Charles Williams
Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.
~ William James
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
~ Paul Cezanne
we are already wholly by his right, but because of sin we are not yet wholly his in fact because we do not wholly will what we are right.
~ Peter Kreeft
Article XVIII asserts Scripture's teaching that people, apart from God's grace, are wholly incapable of perceiving spiritual things.
~ Unknown
Your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.
~ Italo Calvino
A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...
~ Marcel Proust
I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning. Mitch do you like submarine sandwhiches? All-encompassingly...
~ Mitch Hedberg
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
~ Paul Cezanne