Holy Quotes - page 9

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor. (Jerry Bridges)
Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character. View quote
Jerry Bridges
Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent. View quote
Eve Ensler
Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost. View quote
Edna O'Brien
Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter - content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know. View quote
Linda Dillow
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. View quote
Joyce Meyer
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort. View quote
Joyce Meyer
The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement. View quote
Joyce Meyer
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. View quote
Robert Duvall
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. View quote
Amin Maalouf
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community. (John O. Brennan)
It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love. View quote
Billy Graham
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. View quote
William Vickrey
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. View quote
William Jones
I enjoyed being in The Ten Commandments. That was a great experience-to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou. View quote
Yvonne De Carlo
If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong. View quote
Watchman Nee
Every holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know. It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the holy Sacrifice of the Mass. View quote
Padre Pio
The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places. View quote
Raymond Carver
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is. (Elisabeth Elliot)
I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can. View quote
Anne Burrell
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. View quote
Adam Clarke
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws. View quote
Adam Clarke
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures. View quote
Adam Clarke