Top 1200 Holy Scriptures Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

Better a holy discord than a profane concord.

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

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

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.

I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.

Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!

Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned

Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

When individual members and families immerse themselves in the scriptures regularly and consistently, … other areas of activity will automatically come. Testimonies will increase. Commitment will be strengthened. Families will be fortified. Personal revelation will flow

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

Great morning prayer is like marinating in the Holy Spirit.

The love and protection of the Holy Spirit are with you in all spiritual concerns.

The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.

The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

In A.I., the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations.

He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

The Holy Spirit gives me everything I need.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

Unsalted butter is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

The scriptures were one of the ways God spoke to me - even when I was a child - about my needs, my situation, and my life. They still are. Since our needs change over a lifetime, God has different things to tell us at different times.

Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

Success is always the result of following the leading of the Holy Spirit.

I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God. I must read the Bible to know God's will. At every point I will obey and do I will die to self. I will begin to ask God to put me in a service of constant circumstances where to live Christ I must die to self. I will be alive unto God. That I may learn to love Him with my heart, mind, soul, and body.

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis.

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

This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.

The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

As we learn in [the] scriptures, the fundamental purposes for the gift of agency were to love one another and to choose God. Thus we become God's chosen and invite His tender mercies as we use our agency to choose God.

The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to me. This is a holy song (medicine-song), and great is its power. The song tells how, as I sing, I go through the air to a holy place where Yusun (The Supreme Being) will give me power to do wonderful things. I am surrounded by little clouds, and as I go through the air I change, becoming spirit only.

I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.