Quotes about Holy
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
— Catherine of Siena
Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
— Mother Angelica
The soul is frail, but God is full of compassion for the distress of the soul, for the failure of the heart. It is said in the Talmud: "There are some who desire [to help others] but have not the means; whilst others have the means [and help] but have not the desire [to help]." Yet both kinds of people are holy in the eyes of God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Religion becomes sinful when it begins to advocate the segregation of God, to forget that the true sanctuary has no walls. Religion has always suffered from the tendency to become an end in itself, to seclude the holy, to become parochial, self-indulgent, self-seeking; as if the task were not to ennoble human nature but to enhance the power and beauty of its institutions or to enlarge the body of doctrines.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Holy theology arises from knees bent before the mystery of the divine child in the stable. Without the holy night, there is no theology.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible.
— Jerry Bridges
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.
— Dennis Prager
When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.
— DH Lawrence
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
— John Eldredge
Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.
— Alice Hoffman