Holiness Quotes (page 22)

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• pain
• design
• hand

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant. John Piper

• marriage
• god
• husband

Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God (see Matt. 19:6). Russell M. Nelson

• sometimes
• question
• independent

There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them. A field-marshal has his uniform; a bishop his silk apron; a counsellor his silk gown; a beadle his cocked hat. Strip the bishop of his apron, or the beadle of his hat and lace; what are they? Men. Mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. Charles Dickens

• stupid
• saying
• ghost

If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost. T. H. White

• earth
• tread
• treading

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground. Christina G. Rossetti

• strong
• light
• confirmation

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. William Shakespeare

• women
• angel
• worship

The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels. Kate Chopin

• offend
• thing
• offended

Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things. Diana Wynne Jones

• memories
• she
• commitment

Whenever she came across lines she liked, she'd mark them in pencil and commit them to memory as if they were Holy Writ. Haruki Murakami

• earth
• cold
• eating

Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one, A few feet of cold earth, when life is done; A stone at the head, a stone at the feet, A rich, juicy meal for the worms to eat; Rank grass over head, and damp clay around, Brave lodgings for one, these, in holy ground! Charles Dickens

• time
• wise
• die

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies. Diana Wynne Jones

• church
• believe
• moving

I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error,... Galileo Galilei

• night
• universe
• fathers day

How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar? Elie Wiesel

• loneliness
• feeling
• saying

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned. Leonard Cohen

• end
• church
• mindfulness

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; t Robert A. Heinlein