Holy Places Quotes

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

Jack Kornfield

People, Holiness, Moments

Jack Kornfield (1994). “Buddha's Little Instruction Book”, Bantam

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Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

A. Powell Davies

Heart, Giving, Needs

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The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Degrees, Earth, Holiness

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We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.

Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

Return, Holy, Pilgrim

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Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.

Thomas Raymond Kelly

Home, Heart, Destiny

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Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.

Bonnie L. Oscarson

Easy, Standing, Worth It

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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Joe Eszterhas

Drinking, Missing, Bars

"I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant.

R. Kelly

Simple, Self, Voice

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As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Joseph Campbell

White, Faces, Aging

Irishry (1913) "Old Woman"

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In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.

James E. Faust

Home, Feelings, Earth

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The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Raymond Carver

Water, Mind, Together

Raymond Carver (2015). “Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems”, p.26, Vintage

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Why must holy places be dark places?

C. S. Lewis

Dark, Holy, Dark Places

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

Saddam Hussein

Revenge, Son, Rebel

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Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.

M. Scott Peck

Life, Thinking, Catholic

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One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?" “Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.

Cassandra Clare

Ideas, Vampire, Firsts

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

James E. Faust

Saint, World, Strive

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You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

Rumi

Wisdom, Flower, Islamic

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Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

C. S. Lewis

Dark, Blood, Water

C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.

Ann M. Dibb

Believe, Creating, Situation

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The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Boredom, Disrespect, World

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and
truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion.
More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy
things. Just the opposite of cynicism and despair, his end is eternal
life.

D. Todd Christofferson

Hands, Opposites, Understanding

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If you value your safety, avoid holy places founded in the name of peace and brotherhood.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Names, Safety, Brotherhood

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In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

Swami Vivekananda

Eye, Cities, Intellectual

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2404, Manonmani Publishers

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We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the letter of the Scriptures; the inner court, or holy place, is the truth of the Scriptures; the holiest place of all is the person of Jesus Christ; and only when we pass the inmost veil do we come to Him.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

Jesus, Three, Veils

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The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to me. This is a holy song (medicine-song), and great is its power. The song tells how, as I sing, I go through the air to a holy place where Yusun (The Supreme Being) will give me power to do wonderful things. I am surrounded by little clouds, and as I go through the air I change, becoming spirit only.

Geronimo

Song, Native American, Medicine

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