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• Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.

  William Burkitt

  Grace, Gold, Temples

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• Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.

  Charlotte Armstrong

  Shrines, Enough, Solemn

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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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• 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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• Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Heaven, And Love

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• If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, People, May

  "Williams' Case". 1797.

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• Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Affliction, Body

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1964). “Sermons on the Book of Revelation”

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• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Military, Leader, World

  Yitzhak Rabin (1996). “The Rabin Memoirs”, p.423, Univ of California Press

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• I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Christian, Children

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• It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Passion, Kissing

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

  Lord Acton

  Office, Political, Corrupt Power

  1887 Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 Apr.

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• We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.

  Katori Hall

  People, Leader, Trying

  "Katori Hall Talks "Radical" MLK Jr in 'The Mountaintop' Interview" by Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. August 29, 2011.

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• A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Hurt, Believe, Passion

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• Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.

  Leo Rosten

  Hurt, Ignorance, Past

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”

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• This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Grace, Common, Action

  Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.53

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• We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.

  David Brooks

  Gay, Two, People

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• The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Holy Days, Years

  "How To De-Stress This Holiday Season" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.

  Catherine Booth

  Laughing, Saint, Hell

  Catherine Booth (1891). “Popular Christianity, a series of lectures”

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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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• If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Children, Way

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension . Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Heart, Mind, Suffering

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• If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Order

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• The Holy Eucharist is a need of the heart of Christ, just as it is a need of our hearts." "Sanctify and dedicate yourselves in all things in the spirit of love which prompted Our Lord to institute the Holy Eucharist, wherein He perpetuates the gift of His love to the glory of the Father.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Father, Heart, Holy Eucharist

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• Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

  Charles Dickens

  Family, Philosophy, Character

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4671, Delphi Classics

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• Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

  C. I. Scofield

  Kindness, Men, Justice

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