Sanctify Quotes - Page 2

• You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.

  Anthony de Mello

  Grateful

  Anthony De Mello (2013). “Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises”, p.238, Image

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• Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

  Will Durant

  Grandchildren, Hands, Sacred

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Prayer, Eye

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• We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

  Emperor Norton

  Leader, Catholic, Church

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• Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.

  Edward Joseph Young

  Heart, Sacrifice, Race

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• God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Children, Grace, Only Child

  "A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer".

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• Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them."

  Paul Tillich

  Joy, Tasks, Lord's Supper

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• I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Self, Miracle, Grace

  "The Sacred Depths of Nature". Book by Ursula Goodenough, 1998.

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• And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Prayer, Night, Light

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”

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• Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Rays, Use, Splendor

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.403

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• The great brainwave of the inventors of Christianity: "God is love!" And then? What does it change? You may always preach a god of love to men, they will make use of him to sanctify their villainies and their crimes "for the good fight" as well as the massacres en masse, blessing priests leading the way.

  Francois Cavanna

  Fighting, Men, Blessing

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• I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Emotional, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.

  Milan Kundera

  Horse, Men, Order

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1884.

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• Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Passion, Blood

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• ... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

  George Sand

  Artist, Fishing, Goal

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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• A glance at Christ will save, but it is the gazing at Christ that sanctifies.

  Robert E. Murray

  Gazing, Christ, Glances

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• I am where God wills me to be, and so I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me, His power defends me, His grace sanctifies me, His mercy encompasses me, His joy sustains me and all will go well with me.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Joy, Grace, Mercy

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• Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heaven, Legends, Crime

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind". www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn’t sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Hero, Mean

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.217, 谷月社

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• An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

  Samuel Richardson

  Temptation, Littles, Begets

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• God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.

  T. B. Joshua

  Spirit, Building

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• Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Mean, Light, Self

  Dennis Kucinich's Address to the Praxis Peace Institute Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 9, 2002.

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• Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is impossible to obtain a Scriptural knowledge that the merits of Christ's finished work are reckoned to my account, except by proving that the efficacy of the Holy Spirit's work is evident in my soul.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Religious, Soul, Holiness

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• People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

  Meister Eckhart

  People, Worry, Deeds

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• There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

  Pat Robertson

  Church, Constitution, Separation

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