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Sanctity Quotes

Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.54, St Athanasius Press

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.81, Univ of California Press

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

"Sen. Sam Brownback's Politics of Faith". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michelle Norris, www.npr.org. February 9, 2006.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

William Everson (1988). “The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure”, p.95, Stanford University Press

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.159, Рипол Классик

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.88

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

John Milton (1730). “Paradise Lost ... The author John Milton. The fourteenth edition, to which is prefix'd an Account of his life [by Elijah Fenton. With engraved plates]. MS. notes”, p.198

As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

"Desmond Tutu Joins Advocates To Call For Right To Assisted Death". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, ksmu.org. January 4, 2017.