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Quotes About Holy

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
~ Julia Ward Howe
The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
~ Ilona Andrews
Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
~ Bill Vaughan
For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.
~ George Leonard
Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Science is our only hope to be the 'Holy Rope' tying man to the existence.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.
~ J. Reuben Clark
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.
~ Aphex Twin
It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.
~ Adoniram Judson Gordon
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
~ Dennis Prager
Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace.
~ Joseph Mohr
Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.
~ Catherine McAuley
Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.
~ Peter Kreeft
The mission of the church is to make the world a holy place.
~ Mor Ignatius Aphrem II
for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
~ Plato
For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
~ Plato
The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.
~ Plato, Ion
The sacred soul is untouchable.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.
~ John G. Lake
Hear the voice of the Bard!Who Present, Past, and Future sees,Whose ears have heardThe Holy WordThat walk'd among the ancient trees.
~ William Blake
But it was the great temple of Sringeri that always received his most generous patronage, as a stash of correspondence discovered within the temple in the 1950s bears witness. Tipu put on record his horror at the damage done to the temple by a Maratha Pindari raiding party during a Maratha invasion of Mysore: 'People who have sinned against such a holy place are sure to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds,' wrote Tipu. 'Those
~ William Dalrymple
It is recorded that Tipu made all his troops, Hindu and Muslim, take ritual baths in holy rivers 'by the advice of his [Brahmin] augurs' in order to wash away cowardice and make them superior in battle to the Marathas. Tipu also strongly believed in the supernatural powers of holy men, both Hindu and Muslim. As he wrote in 1793 to the Swami of Sringeri: 'You are the Jagatguru
~ William Dalrymple