Holy Water Quotes

• Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Baby, Caverns, Firsts

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press

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• Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

  Rita Schiano

  Sympathy, Grief, Healing

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• Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Simple, Water

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, Section III: On the Necessity of the Wager (184-241), 1669.

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• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle

  Prayer, Healing, Past

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• Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.

  Kabir

  Inspirational, Running, Ocean

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• I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

  Joan Rivers

  Water, Hell, Holy

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• All water is holy water.

  Rajiv Joseph

  Water, Holy

  Rajiv Joseph (2010). “Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays”, p.69, Soft Skull Press

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• I learned that the Holy Water better be fresh, that I need practice throwing the spheres, and that someone has to watch my back so asshats don't steal my demons.

  Jana Oliver

  Practice, Water, Watches

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.123, Pan Macmillan

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• Find Dad Bust Holy Water Scam Save the World Buy Groceries Do Laundry

  Jana Oliver

  Dad, Water, World

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.274, Pan Macmillan

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• Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Water, Holy, Communion

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• Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

  John Burroughs

  Water, Earth, Holy

  John Burroughs (1921). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours.

  Stella Vine

  Hard Work, Long, Water

  "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

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• You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

  William Henry O'Connell

  Thug, Men, Oil

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• A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

  Ramakrishna

  Fall, Men, Water

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• When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain
  Like holy water falls upon the plain,
  'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain
  And see your harvest born.
  And sweet the little breeze of melody
  The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree,
  While the wild poppy lights upon the lea
  And blazes 'mid the corn.

  Francis Ledwidge

  Sweet, Spring, Rain

  Francis Ledwidge (1997). “The complete poems”, The Goldsmith Press Ltd

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• Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.

  Bob Saget

  Water, Catholic, Lovely

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2011

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• I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

  Sylvia Plath

  Religious, New York, Believe

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.

  Michael Franti

  Daughter, Children, Son

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• With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.

  Elon Musk

  Work Out, Water, Guy

  "Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat" by Samuel Gibbs, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2014.

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• Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fire, Water, Buckets

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.196, 谷月社

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• BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Block, Wine, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.26, University of Georgia Press

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• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
  is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past.
  The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more
  you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Prayer, Past, Offering

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• But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!" Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from crosses, can't travel over water, and always get staked in the end by the righteous slayer. Really, who'd be afraid of a creature like that? All you'd need is a Bible, a tanning bed, and some holy water to send us shivering to our dooms.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Water, Vampire, Needs

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• I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Water, Devil

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Father Krone's dry, shaky hand, and holy water to taste like starlight.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Father, Hands, Water

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