Holy Quotes - Page 12

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

I am a melancholy type of person.

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.

Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I have promised myself never to abandon this place. Either, I will contest from Amritsar, or else I won’t contest elections

The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

We must never ignore or pass by the prompting of the Spirit to render service to one another.

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

He who, calm and clear as the moon, hankers no more for continuity-he is holy.