Holy Quotes - Page 33

• We, unaccustomed to courage
  exiles from delight
  live coiled in shells of loneliness
  until love leaves its high holy temple
  and comes into our sight
  to liberate us into life.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Courage, Loneliness

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• It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Believe, Miracle

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• It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2008). “The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works”, Penguin Group(CA)

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• The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

  Charles Fox Parham

  Bible, God, Faith

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• To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redeption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God.

  Philip Schaff

  Faith, Giving Up, Believe

  Philip Schaff (1882). “The Person of Christ: The Perfection of His Humanity Viewed as a Proof of His Divinity”

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• By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Faith, Christian, Taken

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• Ay, call it holy ground,
  The soil where first they trod,
  They have left unstained, what there they found,-
  Freedom to worship God.

  Felicia Hemans

  Freedom, Holy Ground, Soil

  Felicia Dorothea Hemans, “The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers In New England”

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• In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
  With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;
  As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
  While God is marching on.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Freedom, Men, Sea

  "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" l. 25 (1862)

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• With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.

  William Mountford

  Hope, Mind, Life Is

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 328), 1895.

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• As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Knowledge, Rays, Virtue

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 366), 1895.

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• I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Heart

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• Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By its nature love is enduring. Again, dear friends, we catch a further glimpse of how much the Holy Spirit offers our world: love which dispels uncertainty; love which overcomes the fear of betrayal; love which carries eternity within; the true love which draws us into a unity that abides!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Betrayal, Love Is

  Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Vigil with The Young People, w2.vatican.va. July 19, 2008.

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• Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Jesus, Love You

  "Vigil With the Young People". Address in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 19, 2008.

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• Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
  I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

  Heinrich Heine

  Life, Sweet, Morning

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• What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Life, Nature, Religion

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• The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Peace, Hurt, Men

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• You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

  Theodore Roethke

  Believe, Miracle, Poetry

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• I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Religious, Prayer

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• Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some Christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. People attempt to take possession of God. Theology claims to explain everything, including the being of God. People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position ­ that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, People, Religion

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• There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.

  Denis Diderot

  Christian, Holy Prophet, Religion

  "Conversations with a Christian Lady". "Selected Writings", edited by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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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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• Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Hate, Animal

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• [The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Book, Listening, Religion

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• Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

  Rita Schiano

  Sympathy, Grief, Healing

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• A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

  Thomas Brooks

  Truth, Humility, Joy

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.108

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