Holy Quotes - Page 19

• I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

  Daniel Morgan

  Jesus, Easter, Believe

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• Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

  George Muller

  Reality, Christianity, Form

  "A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller, Vol. 2, part 4". Book by George Müller, 1855.

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• I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

  Iris Murdoch

  Worship, Made, Sincerely

  Iris Murdoch (1990). “The Message to the Planet”, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books

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• To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

  John Henry Newman

  Jesus, Holy Days, Names

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• You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

  Paul Newman

  Morning, Careers, Smoking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Long, House, Church

  "An Open Letter to the Pope" by Sinéad O’Connor, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2010.

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• When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spirit, Emotion, States

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• I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.

  Conor Oberst

  Beautiful, Believe, Ideas

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• We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  "Joel Osteen: The Man Behind America's Largest Church". Interview with Kristi Watts, www.cbn.com.

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• The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

  Dennis Prager

  Men, Essence, Life And Death

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• 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

  Christian, Animal, Two

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• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  Orson Pratt

  God, Father, Son

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.18, Latter-day Strength

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• Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

  Joseph Prince

  Spirit, Lord, Holy Spirit

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• Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Doe, Alliances

  Speech at Meeting with the Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives of the Russian Federation, en.kremlin.ru. June 27, 2006.

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• Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  People, Political, Doe

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• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  Karl Rahner

  Christmas, Beautiful, Song

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• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

  Ramakrishna

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  War, Struggle, Mean

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• Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

  Rumi

  Heart, Giving, Spirit

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.152, Shambhala Publications

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• Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Prayer, Book, Self

  "Democratised Holiness: What Yom Kippur Teaches Us About Moral Responsibility". www.abc.net.au. October 3, 2014.

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• Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Land, Waiting, Peaceful

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• Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Military, Land, Iraq

  "Moqtada al-Sadr orders halt to attacks on US troops stationed in Iraq". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Religious, Catholic

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

  Arlen Specter

  War, Simple, Humanity

  "Joining Race, Specter Attacks the Right" by Richard L. Berke, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 1995.

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• The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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