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Mosque About

I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

- Aasif Mandvi

Live Just

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

New Old

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

- Adam Clarke

Interest Read

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

- Adam Clarke

Business Innovation

Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.

- Adam Lashinsky

Action Grow

Dreams grow holy put in action.

- Adelaide Anne Procter

Judaism Jews

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Curiosity Never

Never lose a holy curiosity.

- Albert Einstein

Love Made

'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Play Lover

When you're a kid, and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.

- Alex Kurtzman

Celebrity Through

Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.

- Alison Jackson

Mood How

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

- Allen Ginsberg

Fact Having

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

- Amin Maalouf

Hollywood Based

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

- Amy Sherman-Palladino

Die Over

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

- Angelina Grimke

Love Always

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

- Anne Lamott

Need Going

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

- Anne McCaffrey

Brotherhood Need

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

- Arlen Specter

Island Yes

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

- Arlo Guthrie

One Day Need

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

- Charles Eastman

Soul Within

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

- Charles Simeon

Work Calling

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

- Charles Simeon

Doing Naturally

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

- Charles Stanley

Arrogant Will

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

- Charles Stanley

Revolves Forgiven

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

- Charles Williams

Rock 30 Rock

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

- Cheyenne Jackson

Purely Saviour

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

- Christopher Columbus

Crazy People

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Easter Christ

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

- Daniel Morgan

Environmental Lives

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

- David James Duncan

Hidden Poetic

In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.

- David Whyte

Church Times Square

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

- David Wilkerson

Unborn Worlds

God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.

- Dayananda Saraswati

Bible Stories

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

- Joel Edgerton

World Grow

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

- Johannes Tauler

Love Side

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

- John Cleese

Reason Christians

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.

- John Eldredge

Living Very

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

- John Henry Newman

Spirit Hopes

The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.

- John Nelson Darby

Meaning Islam

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

- John O. Brennan

Bible Escapes

The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being.

- John Shelby Spong

Bible Tells

The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life is called to be all that it can be.

- John Shelby Spong

Think I Think

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

- John Updike

Doubt Settled

I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.

- John Wesley

Understand Believers

The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.

- John Wycliffe

Love Lord

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

Receive Christ

Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of the grace of Jesus Christ to receive the Gospel.

- Joseph Edward Kurtz

Lord Transform

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

- Joseph Prince

Interesting Appears

Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?

- Joseph Prince

Purpose Lives

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

- Juliette Gordon Low

Politics Persuading

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

- Junius

Some Been

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

- Jurgen Habermas

Most Means

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

- Ben Nicholson

Always However

The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

- Benazir Bhutto

Christ Other

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

- Bernadette Devlin

Book Holy Book

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

- Hamid Karzai

Childhood Implied

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

- Bernard Berenson

Six Saved

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

- Beth Ditto

Cow

Holy cow!

- Harry Caray

Over Trained

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

- Harry Caray

Races Another

I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

- Billy Carter

Constant Natures

With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.

- Henry B. Eyring

Will Remembrance

The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.

- Henry B. Eyring

Given Companion

Let us do whatever is required to qualify for the Holy Ghost as our companion and then let us go forward fearlessly so that we will be given the powers to do whatever the Lord calls us to do.

- Henry B. Eyring

Receive Invitation

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

- Henry B. Eyring

Always Been

My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

- Bre Pettis

Made Sincerely

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

- Iris Murdoch

Within Lord

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

- J. I. Packer

Politics Some

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

- Carl Olson

Politician Writ

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

- Jacob K. Javits

Alone Spirit

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

- Jacques Ellul

Reign Perdition

The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.

- Jakob Bohme

Rest Sabbath

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

- James E. Faust

Forgiveness Through

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

- James E. Faust

Alive Making

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

- James L. Brooks

Election Pope

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

- Donald Wuerl

Believe Provided

He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

- Douglas Feaver

Commercial Vehicles

In addition to the vehicles currently known, the holy grail of commercial spaceflight remains a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable spaceplane.

- Dylan Taylor

Over Lives

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

- E. Stanley Jones

Reaction Upheld

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

- E. Stanley Jones

Broadway Like

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

- Jeremy Piven

Christian Life

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

- Jerry Bridges

Living Means

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

- Edith Stein

Apt Thus

Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into her group, and the children will perceive that He is present and that He assists in their work; thus, He will take possession of their souls.

- Edith Stein

Will May

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

Through Methods

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

Country Like

Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.

- Kailash Kher

Laws Surely

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Christmas Lovely

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

- Karl Rahner

Been Imminent

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

- Eric Topol

Makes Believes

Man makes holy what he believes.

- Ernest Renan

My Own More

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

- Francis Chan

Church About

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

- Francis Chan

Satan His

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

- Francis of Assisi

World Humility

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

- Francis of Assisi

Lord Attend

The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

- L. Lionel Kendrick

Will Christ

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

- Frank R. Wolf

Think Still

I'm drawn to punk. I'm drawn to samba a bit. I don't think there's a type of music I'm not drawn to. Lykke Li I really like. Holy Sons I still can't get enough of.

- Fred Armisen

Week Boisterous

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

- Frederica Mathewes-Green

Drops Handkerchief

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

- Frederick Buechner