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Quotes About Sanctify

We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.
~ Katori Hall
Man makes holy what he believes.
~ Ernest Renan
I ask him to sanctify my imagination and help me experience the real Jesus "with all five senses." The
~ Gregory A. Boyd
Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.
~ Monica Johnson
Man makes holy what he believes.
~ Ernest Renan
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
~ Hosea Ballou
I like how it presented this contradiction because traditionally gay people have been shut out from the church, so 'Sanctify' was claiming a bit of that back and saying, 'My sexuality is holy.'
~ Olly Alexander
Nuestra revolución partió de una premisa y es que la vida humana no es algo extraordinario y santificarla es cosa de las religiones, y aquí hemos decretado la muerte de Dios.
~ Julia Navarro
Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
~ Francis of Assisi
If we desire our souls to be sanctify, we shall hunger for the Truth.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.
~ Milan Kundera
Wash you, make you clean.
~ Isaiah
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
~ Khalil Gibran
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." Once again the music is measured by silence. Christ is in the tomb as He was in His mother's womb, and just as that first silence was part of the rhythm that moved forward to the visible coming of Life into the world, this silence in the tomb carries the music forward in three great beats to the hour when Life shall again come out of darkness and sweeten and sanctify the world.
~ Caryll Houselander
Then they labour anxiously, when they overdo it, to the loss of their quiet and health: then distrustfully, when they doubt God's providence, thinking that their own labour is the cause of their thriving, as if it were in their own hands to thrive or not to thrive. Then they labour profanely, when they set themselves to work like brute beasts, never raising their thoughts to God, nor sanctifying their labour with daily prayer; when on the Lord's day they do unnecessary servile work
~ George Herbert
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.
~ Saint Vincent Pallotti
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.
~ James Baldwin
and wife are two windows, each letting light into a home, light that seamlessly blends, brightening and sanctifying the marriage
~ James Conroyd Martin
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
~ Charles Dickens
I used to think that if you changed from … valuing one thing to valuing another, it was because you'd learnt something new, understood something better. And it's not like that at all. I just value what I'm stuck with. That's it, that's the whole story. People make a virtue out of necessity. They sanctify what they can't escape.
~ Greg Egan
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
~ Joshua A. Norton
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Teach your kids, and any children you can, to sanctify life.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I was honoured recently to accept the position of president of Mizrachi U.K. I did so because I believe our eternal challenge as Jews is both straightforward and also awash with complexity: How to sanctify the innovations of the modern world in accordance with our eternal Jewish values?
~ Ephraim Mirvis