Holy Quotes - Page 15

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.

God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Sanctuaries are magical places - dare I say holy?

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.

The same Holy Spirit who implants faith within a life implants the boldness to verbalize that faith.

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

None who are shod with fleshly shoes can stand on the holy ground of God's service. Many failures and much waste and confusion which have resulted are due to men's coming to work, instead of being sent out to work.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

Either all days are holy or none are.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

Holy communion is to feel one with the One in all beings and creations.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.