Holy Quotes

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

Good, Words, Speak

Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

Lose, Curiosity

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, Liberty, Mad

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Martin Luther

Heart, Hell, Afraid

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein

Government, End, May

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
Voltaire

Nor, Neither, Empire

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
Cat Stevens

Successful, Islam, Person

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine

Heart, Dark, Spirit

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
Charles Stanley

Leadership, God, Fear

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enjoy, Fame, Rank

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Alice Walker

Making, Rest, Week

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
Charles Stanley

Wise, Friend, Person

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

Teacher, Wise, Everything

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Billy Graham

Year, Days, High

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
Charles Stanley

Wisdom, Spirit, Godly

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
Charles Spurgeon

Spirit, Create, Sinner

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake

Life, Everything, Lives

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White

Great, True, Before

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

Book, Ignore, Off

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Robert Anton Wilson

God, War, Liars

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon

Job, Ghost, Pencil

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Faith, Lost, Ourselves

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
E. M. Forster

Holiness, Minus

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Experience, Science, Reason

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

Faith, Good, Hurt

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

God, Hope, Beautiful

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
William Law

Life, Happy, Greatest

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
E. Stanley Jones

Power, Working, Lives

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

Great, God, Jesus

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