Quotes about Sanctity

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

The essential message of Judaism and Christianity is that life is not an end in itself. Life is to be a means—to goodness, to sanctity, and to God. The belief in life as an end in itself is a form of idolatry.

They testify that nature is not changed but is preserved by God. But the stupid and crazy mob of monks has taught that parents, wives, and the world should be abandoned and that one should withdraw into a monastery. But what is to become of human society or finally of all life? Surely that was not sanctity or worship of God, as they have called it; it was satanic madness.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory making out and sleeping around, we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.

You shall not murder.