Sanctity Quotes
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
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
Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”
"The Veritas Project: Hangman's Curse".
...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
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 52, 1799.
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.
Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004
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
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
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