HOLINESS

Related Subjects: Devotion, Goodness, Piety, Religion

1. Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.—Bible, Exodus 3:25
   

2. In the beauties of holiness.—Bible, Psalms 110:3
   

3. Everything that lives is holy.—BLAKE
   

4. Things sacred should not only be untouched with the hands, but unviolated in thought.—CICERO, In Verrem
   

5. Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.—JONATHAN EDWARDS, Holiness
   

6. We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not by private, but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

7. And many a holy text around she strews
   That teach the rustic moralist to die.—THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
   

8. But all his mind is bent to holiness
   To number Ave-Maries on his beads.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
   

9. What thou wouldst highly
   That wouldst thou holily.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

10. Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II