Holy Man Quotes - Page 2

• One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like the Gita and the Imitation of Christ; always think of the attributes of God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2616, Manonmani Publishers

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• Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Communication, Mean, Men

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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• Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Men, Thinking, Sometimes

  "My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician". Book by Lon Milo DuQuette, 1999.

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• Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, White Man

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• [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Angel, Son, Men

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.9, Penguin

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• The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Holy, Beats

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.170, Penguin

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• If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Rights, India

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• Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

  Sitting Bull

  Fake People, Native American, Men

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• I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

  Baba Amte

  Men, Oil, Leader

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• Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

  John Calvin

  Men, Scripture, Overwhelmed

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Evil

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• The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Views, Suffering

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• How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Eye, Men, Storm

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• Holy men of old were moved upon by the Holy Spirit and the revelation given to them is God's Word in the Holy Scriptures. Is God speaking any less today through holy men called of God to bring a message through revelation to this generation? ... We wave our Bibles and cry, 'This is the Word of' God.' Indeed it is God's Word, but the Holy Spirit yet brings revelation to this generation today that is no less God's Word... The prophet is not a method that God uses; but in fact is the only method he uses to speak to this generation.

  Earl Paulk

  Men, This Generation, Generations

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• Bodies of holy men and women exude
  Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
  But under heavy loads of trampled clay
  Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
  Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Lying, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

  Dean Koontz

  Dark, Men, Mystery

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Darkfall”, p.25, Penguin

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• But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Intellectual, Religion

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• I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Hands, Spy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.121, RosettaBooks

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• ...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church.

  Pope John Paul II

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

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• The people of Jesus' day thought holy men were unapproachable. But Jesus' work was in the marketplace. He made people feel welcome, and that they had a place. His life was a constant demonstration that there were only two things that really mattered in this life-God and people. They were the only things that lasted forever.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Jesus, Men, Two

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• Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kindness, Men, Remember

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

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Wise, Men, Long

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• I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Men, Holy

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• Ram Dass, Krishna Dass, we all spoke through interpreters. There were good interpreters there, educated people in India speak English but Maharaji was the One, the Baba, Holy Man, mendicant, he didn't speak English. We talked to him and it was hard to know him, he was an ancient holy man and I was a 21 year old seeker. So I never knew what was going on, I mean I don't really know what's going on now, my guess work is a little better perhaps.

  Surya Das

  Mean, Men, Years

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders, who are less favoured of the Lord. Amazingly, there are no recorded cases of the holy man going up the mountain and finding that it's the others who are right. It always turns out that God wants unbelievers to suffer, and what could be more noble than to help him a little? When religion rules, toleration disappears, for you cannot cherish the verdict of death to the infidels, yet also tolerate those who disagree - for those are the very same infidels.

  Simon Blackburn

  Men, Suffering, Mountain

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