Quotes About Saint Holiness

#1. Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

Elizabeth Goudge

#2. I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.

Jim Walton

#3. In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

Paul Valery

#4. Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

Saint Augustine

#5. Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

J.I. Packer

#6. To be a saint means to be separated. But it means more than that. The saint also is to be involved in a vital process of sanctification. We are to be purified daily in the growing pursuit of holiness. If we are justified, we must also be sanctified.

R.C. Sproul

#7. All yours, sweetheart.

Elena Kincaid

#8. God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

Oswald Chambers

#9. There was a pause. Mendel said: 'It's the devil you don't know that gets you.

John Le Carre

#10. The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity,

Saint Augustine

#11. Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

Eli Roth

#12. It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.

Anthony Of Sourozh

#13. When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

Smith Wigglesworth

#14. As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

Jonas Salk

#15. We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#16. The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

Thomas Merton

#18. All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

Saint Francis De Sales

#19. Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know what it is you learned from that lovely Dune planet - waste not? True, Baron?
-Piter De Vries

Frank Herbert