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Quotes About Holy

I can only assume that he must have dreamed it up at the last minute and ad-libbed it—and on just such foolish, tenuous, holy threads as that, I suppose, hang the destinies of us all.
~ Frederick Buechner
The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
This crown of the laughter, the rosary crown: to you, my brothers, I throw this crown! I pronounced laughter holy: you higher men, learn — to laugh!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?
~ Amity Shlaes
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
~ Yvonne De Carlo
Priests believed cats to be holy animals, which were mummified in their death and presented to Bastet as offering.
~ Roy Jackson
If you had watched any of those three wonderful films, you would have caught Vampire Gym Teacher # 2: Back to Cruel, where the vampire hunter ties a vampire chick to the shower and tortures her by turning on the water. They can"t stand water, even if it"s not holy water.
~ Rusty Fischer
Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife
~ Ruth Downie
Worship the Gods, procure the welfare of men, this life is short. Charitable actions, and a holy disposition, is the only fruit of this earthly life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.
~ Margaret Atwood
Jesus saw the eternal in the everyday. Your last day on earth should be spent as you spent all your others-- doing your daily tasks with love and honesty... An ordinary day is, perhaps, the most holy of all.
~ Margaret George
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
~ William Blake
The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.
~ Frederic Ozanam
There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, Why on our hearts, and not in them? The rabbi answered, Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.
~ Anne Lamott
Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.
~ Anne Lamott
Holy God, we praise thy Name Lord of All, we bow before thee!
~ Anne Rice
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
~ Annie Dillard
Well, well, imperfect gods." Tally allowed herself a chuckle. "What would your father say, Andrew?" He shook his head. "I am not sure. But he isn't here. I am the holy man now.
~ Scott Westerfeld
When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!
~ Shakespeare; William
The ISI may well be Pakistan's answer to the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy, Roman nor an empire: it
~ Shashi Tharoor
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into man, and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.
~ John G. Lake
Up the sky in silence holy Comes the young moon slowly, slowly, Softly with her light divine, Filling, like a cup with wine.
~ ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN
WHO SHALL not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy" (Rev 15:4). He
~ Arthur W. Pink