Holy Man Quotes - Page 2

• Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Communication, Mean, Men

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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• Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Men, Thinking, Sometimes

  "My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician". Book by Lon Milo DuQuette, 1999.

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• Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

  Sitting Bull

  Fake People, Native American, Men

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• Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, White Man

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• [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Angel, Son, Men

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.9, Penguin

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• If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Rights, India

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• The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Holy, Beats

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.170, Penguin

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• The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Views, Suffering

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• I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

  Baba Amte

  Men, Oil, Leader

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• Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

  John Calvin

  Men, Scripture, Overwhelmed

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Evil

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• A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Men, Hands

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• Holy men of old were moved upon by the Holy Spirit and the revelation given to them is God's Word in the Holy Scriptures. Is God speaking any less today through holy men called of God to bring a message through revelation to this generation? ... We wave our Bibles and cry, 'This is the Word of' God.' Indeed it is God's Word, but the Holy Spirit yet brings revelation to this generation today that is no less God's Word... The prophet is not a method that God uses; but in fact is the only method he uses to speak to this generation.

  Earl Paulk

  Men, This Generation, Generations

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• How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Eye, Men, Storm

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• Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Political, Church

  John Quincy Adams (1876). “Babtists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers”, p.21

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• I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Hands, Spy

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

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• God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Happiness, Cutting, Men

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations”, p.12

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• I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

  George Eliot

  Trust, Men, Deeds

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.211

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• Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that pre-occupy your existence and get back to what's important now.

  Eddie Murphy

  Summer, Autumn, Winter

  "Fictional character: 'G'". "Holy Man", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Men, Pockets, Spirituality

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• Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

  Dean Koontz

  Dark, Men, Mystery

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Darkfall”, p.25, Penguin

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• SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Wise, Men, Long

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• Gojyo: That no good holy man's been rubbing off on you! Goku: Me? Like Sanzo?! What a rotten thing to say!

  Kazuya Minekura

  Men, Rotten, Holy

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• The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Art, Pain

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.208, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Dedication, Teamwork and Camaraderie: Tim Duncan" by Angela Guzman, www.beliefnet.com.

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