Quotes of: Holy-book Keyword

Public money is like holy water, everyone helps himself to it.

Italian

But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given to a man too weak to use it; of a holy tree that should have flourished in a people’s heart with flowers and singing birds, and now is withered...

Black Elk speaks: Being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux

Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and...

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Only my people can receive my glory and dwell with me in the holy city. Only those who are holy can be my people, and they may inherit eternal life. Only those who obey my commands can be holy, and they may be watched over by me. Only those who under...

Understand God's Word - Walk in the Truth

I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but no place is so holy that it’s worth shedding the blood of those who bear the image of God.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

[the cartoon Knights are being chased by the animated Beast of Aaaaauuuugggggghhh] Narrator: And as the Black Beast lurched forward, escape for Arthur and his knights seemed hopeless, when suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack! [cut to...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

-believed in carnal love. To us, a book's words were holy, but the paper, cloth, cardboard, glue, thread, and ink that contained them were a mere vessel, and it was no sacrilege to treat them as wantonly as desire and pragmatism dictated. Hard use wa...

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

It is He Who sent down to thee, in truth, the Book (Quran), confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (Quran) (of judgment between ...

The Quran

The West has to take a critical look at itself and examine the apparent double standards at work that allow it to attack Iraq for possessing weapons of mass destruction but not North Korea, whose leader shared Saddam Hussein's megalomaniacal qualitie...

I Is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years Inside Afghanistan

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed t...

Essays and Aphorisms

Pain gives a certain depth to life.

Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe

All people who come to the dark come for power.

Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe

No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.

The Child of the Holy Grail

To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.

Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit

[denial] is an attempt to bring order to our lives.

Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit

An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory.

Eve of Awakening

That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.

Escapes

Any teachings that fail to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of life, is absolutely antichrist.John 1:1-13.

God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

To embrace Jesus Christ, you must let go of the world by crucifying the pleasures of your flesh.

God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

All the wealth in this sinful world, cannot buy one second of life in God's Paradise.

God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

He does miracles when we need them—not for our entertainment or to make us feel “spiritual.

Gift & Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today