Quotes About Holy

The soul is frail, but God is full of compassion for the distress of the soul, for the failure of the heart. It is said in the Talmud: "There are some who desire [to help others] but have not the means; whilst others have the means [and help] but have not the desire [to help]." Yet both kinds of people are holy in the eyes of God.4

to the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.

It is not in space but in time, he writes, that we find God's likeness. In the Bible, no thing or place is holy by itself; not even the Promised Land is called holy.

The Abrahamic religions refer to God as Spirit, the holy wind animating life.

The world felt increasingly out of human control, and the best hope seemed to be found in the hairline cracks between Heaven and earth provided by sacred places and holy people.

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

The temple of God is the holy people in Jesus Christ. The Body of Christ is the living temple of God and of the new humanity.

Holy theology arises from knees bent before the mystery of the divine child in the stable. Without the holy night, there is no theology.

Battling Pentex in the Amazon was to them a holy war.

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets.

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.

Según esto, cuando vean que está establecida en el lugar santo la abominación desoladora que predijo el Profeta Daniel (quien lea esto, nótelo bien):

un Ángel del Señor le apareció en sueños, diciendo: José, hijo de David, no tengas recelo en recibir a María tu esposa en tu casa: porque lo que se ha engendrado en su vientre, es obra del Espíritu Santo. 21 Así que dará a luz un hijo a quien pondrás por nombre Jesús; pues él es el que ha de salvar a su pueblo o librarlo de sus pecados.

22 Dichas estas palabras alentó o dirigió el aliento hacia ellos, y les dijo: Reciban el Espíritu Santo. 23 Quedan perdonados los pecados a aquellos a quienes los perdonen; y quedan retenidos, a los que se los retengan. 24

Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible.

When you think you're pursuing a divine destiny, it's not hard to find yourself watching for all the other invisible forces out there: darker, more dangerous powers who don't want your holy mission to succeed.

No matter how many churches are closed or how humanistic a leader or a movement may claim to be, there will never be anything wholly secular about human fear. Man's terror is always holy terror-which is a strikingly apt popular phrase. Terror always refers to the ultimates of life and death.

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.

often finds a more interesting story behind the conventional one. Martin Luther's supposedly revolutionary resistance to indulgences took place in a German state where they were sold. Even more intriguing, they weren't sold because the ruling authorities there get a brisk business in holy relics – which Luther left alone.

My mother? No, Calanthe. I presume she had a choice… Or perhaps she didn't? No, but she did; a suitable spell or elixir would have been sufficient… A choice. A choice which should be respected, for it is the holy and irrefutable right of every woman.

In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women.

The prince frowned again. "The name? Why do you not speak your God's name?" "Because His name is holy," I answered, "and not to be invoked lightly.