Holy Lies Quotes

#1. Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

John Adams

#2. Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore the mystery of your body, mind and soul. You will find the truth.

Amit Ray

#3. Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

Thomas Paine

#4. When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

John Owen

#5. Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.

J.K. Rowling

#6. The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

William James

#7. To live is not enough; we must take part.

Pablo Casals

#8. Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.

Mel White

#9. Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

Ann Voskamp

#10. Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

Karl Marx

#11. I just heard some guy say Argentines are a bunch of Italians who speak Spanish but think they're British living in France.

Marc Cameron

#12. To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?

Arthur Rimbaud

#13. I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#14. Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible.

Jerry Bridges

#15. As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

William Eldridge Odom

#16. Great is the Baptism that lies before you:44 a ransom to captives; a remission of offences; a death of sin; a new-birth of the soul; a garment of light; a holy indissoluble seal; a chariot to heaven; the delight of Paradise; a welcome into the kingdom; the gift of adoption!

Cyril Of Jerusalem

#17. The solution to the problems of the church today lies in solving the problems of individual Christians, and the remedy is a person - the Holy Spirit.

Charles C. Ryrie

#18. There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

Ming-Dao Deng

#19. Platonic England, house of solitudes,
rests in its laurels and its injured stone

Geoffrey Hill

#20. It just showed once again that half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live.

P.G. Wodehouse

#21. When God puts us in a holy holding pattern, it can feel like forever, but God doesn't hold us back to make us suffer. He does it to help us trust Him. He sees what lies ahead and knows what we need to be ready for it.

Lee W. Merrill

#22. Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies,) I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.

Richard Baxter

#23. The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.

Charles Fillmore

#24. For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.

Jessica Valenti

#25. I like to think I'm pretty close in comparison to Aaron Rodgers. He's very athletic and gets the ball out quickly. He's very knowledgeable of the game, controls the offense totally, and that's something I try to do. Just know the offense inside and out.

Jimmy Garoppolo

#26. He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

Edith Wharton

#27. We're over-delivering value against other choices I think consumers can get.

Don Mattrick

#28. The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

A.B. Simpson

#29. There is no fire like lust, no vise like hatred, no trap like delusion, and no galloping river like craving.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#30. Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

David Lynch

#31. The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.

Dan Brown

#32. The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

Steven Pinker