Quotes About Holiness

do all you can to stop the ungodly chatter.

Submitting to God requires us to deal with the sin in our lives. Sin

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.

The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit with out speaking. This is the great paradox.

It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

For silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

All space is sacred space when you remember that God is within you.

Hospice nursing is the purest kind of nursing you can do, and every day you are reminded that you walk on holy ground in preparing God's children for heaven. Hospice nursing is very intimately participating in the kingdom of God that Jesus spoke about.

When every activity of life becomes a way to know G-d, evil simply withers away and dies.

Cuando la naturaleza femenina, naturalmente tan perversa, se sublima en la santidad, entonces acierta a convertirse en el más elevado vehículo de la gracia.

Sacro egoismo was the phrase; you made yourself holy by the force with which you asserted your own Godhead.

You would say that he felt that money had made him holy.

One does not cross-examine a saint.

At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without

And this is the note: "Oh Thou who art! "Ecclesiastes names thee the Almighty; Maccabees names thee Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty; Baruch names thee Immensity; the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth; John names thee Light; the book of Kings names thee Lord; Exodus calls thee Providence; Leviticus, Holiness; Esdras, Justice; Creation calls thee God; man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, and that is the most beautiful of all thy names.

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

Il n'y a qu'une tristesse, c'est de n'être pas des saints.

Existe una sola tristeza, la de no ser santos

For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness--and poetry--find entrance to the human soul.

she had saved herself for this, stored her love within her so that this book, which could not possibly have been written for any purpose but to crawl inside her and dwell there like a holy thing, so that this book would not be ashamed of her profligacy.

they climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness

He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill. And this, too: our holiest men have always gone into the wilderness to hear the voice of the Name. Avram

Given that the shared understanding of truth has been central to language, religion and society, when we ignore small lies, we inflict damage on the larger truth. This is not holiness we're talking about, but wholeness and integrity.