#holiness

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. ↗

— William Blake

#another #because #devils #expect #god

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#contend #convince #gone #holiness #i

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#believed #calling #go #god #had

Throughout my life, until this very moment, whatever virtue I have accomplished, including any benefit that may come from this book, I dedicate to the welfare of all beings. May the roots of suffering diminish. May warfare, violence, neglect, indifference, and addiction also decrease. May the wisdom and compassion of all beings increase, now and in the future. May we clearly see all the barriers we erect between ourselves and others to be as insubstantial as our dreams. May we appreciate the great perfection of all phenomena. May we continue to open our hearts and minds, in order to work ceaselessly for the benefit of all beings. May we go to the places that scare us. May we lead the life of a warrior. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#holiness #lovingkindness #mindfulness-practice #prayer #dreams

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#another #another way #bodies #heavenly #heavenly bodies

I made a painting that has holes in it. Why is there holes? Because God says to us, I cannot do all. I can create you, but I cannot do it all. You have to help Me fix the holes and put everything together. This is the learning from the Holocaust. That each of us is here to fix the holes. I don’t know how much you know about the Holocaust. What is your interest in it? What do you want to do with your life, where do you want to go? What is hurting in you? What are your holes to fix? What is now important in my life, and in your life also, is that after the Holocaust, we are shaking hands with each other, that we are nobody lesser than the other. That we understand the real meaning of what God created us for. You have the task. You have the task to better this world. There are holes in people also but those we create and can fix with love. God wants us whole. ↗

— Alice Lok Cahana

#holiness #holocaust #kindness #love #spirtuality

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#church #dedicate #deserves #fatherland #fighting

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. ↗

— Richard Mentor Johnson

#christian #christianity #deeds #holiness #lives

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. ↗

— John Keats

#am #certain #heart #holiness #i

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#church #every #folks #go #holiness