Holy Quotes - Page 17

• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

  William Blake

  Life, Growth, Delight

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions

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• Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

  John O. Brennan

  Struggle, Community, Islam

  "Obama's Complacency About Radical Islam" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 1, 2013.

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• Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Dirty, Book, Winning

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Errors, Land, Humanity

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1896, in 'The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896' (1896) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

  Anne Burrell

  Oil, Trying, Pork

  "Chef Burrell shares restaurant secrets in TV show". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. July 8, 2008.

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• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  Abraham Cahan

  Reality, Other Worlds, Tangible

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Doctrine

  "The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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• There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

  Tony Campolo

  Men, Privilege, Spirit

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• Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

  Jimmy Carter

  Israel, Land, Giving

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• When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

  Jimmy Carter

  Israel, Egypt, Land

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

  John Cleese

  Love Life, Holy Grail, Sides

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

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• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friendship, Adversity, Ties

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• No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

  Christopher Columbus

  Names, Tasks, No Fear

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• I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Father, Book, People

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Book, People

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• We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Dog, Horse, Home

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously...I'm Kidding”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

  Bernadette Devlin

  Jesus, Hate, Names

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• Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

  Denis Diderot

  Hurt, Men, Self

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• I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

  Beth Ditto

  Joy, Overcoming, Baptists

  "'Everything that you think is weird is normal to me'". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

  Robert Duvall

  Doe, Ghost, Individual

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• There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Religious, Men, Hands

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Holy Days, One Day, Needs

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.15, World Wisdom, Inc

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• The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

  Jacques Ellul

  Links, Spirit, Neighbor

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• We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

  Vera Farmiga

  War, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Literature, Holiness

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

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