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• Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hair, Names, Rose

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• Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• Holy silicone suppository, Batman!” Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. “What?” My brother shrugged defensively. “That’s what it looks like.

  Rachel Vincent

  Brother, Laughing, Looks

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.199, MIRA

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• The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

  Ezra Pound

  Temples

  "Ezra Pound". Poem by Ezra Pound, 1925.

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• The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Mean, Climbing

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• So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Mean, Justice

  "Your Tax Dollars at Work - in West Bank Settlements" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. July 12, 2010.

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• In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Father, Son, Giving

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.17, Ignatius Press

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• I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving, Water, Vampire

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• It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great work. It is not a matter of the head only. It is a matter of the heart. It is being touched by the Holy Spirit until we know that this work is true, that Joseph Smith was verily a prophet of God, that God lives and that Jesus Christ lives and that they appeared to the boy Joseph Smith, that the Book of Mormon is true, that the priesthood is here with all of its gifts and blessings.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Book, Heart

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• Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless communicates that unique vision to all the rest. That, says an old author, is why the Seraphim in Isaiah's vision are crying "Holy, Holy, Holy" to one another (Isaiah VI, 3). The more we thus share the Heavenly Bread between us, the more we shall all have.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessed, Unique, Men

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• In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Feel Better, Medicine, Missing

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• I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Dark, World

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.175, Scholastic UK

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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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• Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Dark

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Mean, Son

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Heaven, Soul

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• Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.

  Clive Barker

  Two, Numbers, Evil

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• I cry to you, my Lord, my rock! Do not be deaf to me, for if you are silent, I shall go down to the pit like the rest. Hear my voice raised in petition as I cry to you for help, as I raise my hands, my Lord, toward your holy of holies.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Rocks, Hands, Voice

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• Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sunday, Thinking, Make You Think

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• But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.

  Meg Cabot

  Names, Firsts, Becoming

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 3: Runaway”, p.73, Scholastic Inc.

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• In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

  Kate Chopin

  Eight, Soul, Twenties

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

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• The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Baptism, Honest, Ghost

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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, Communion, Poke

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• You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love.... In short, one might simply say: save your kisses--you might need them someday. And when anyof you--men and women--are given entrance to the heart of a trusting young friend, you stand on holy ground. In such a place you must be honest with yourself--and with your friend--about love and the expression of it's symbols.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Heart, Kissing, Men

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• I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

  Ben Jonson

  Prayer, Grief, Wish

  Ben Jonson, William (Schriftsteller) Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Masques, &c. Epigrams. Underwoods”, p.289

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