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“When the wounded mouse finally died, I held his little body. I rubbed the top of his head, and I thought of it as a blessing, a baptism. Whenever I fed the mice or weighed them for the lever-press task, I always thought of Jesus in the upper room, washing his disciples' feet. This moment of servitude, of being quite literally brought low, always reminded me that I needed these mice just as much as they needed me. More. What would I know about the brain without them? How could I perform my work, find answers to my questions? The collaboration that the mice and I have going in this lab is, if not holy, then at least sacrosanct. I have never, will never, tell anyone that I sometimes think this way, because I'm aware that the Christians in my life would find it blasphemous and the scientists would find it embarrassing, but the more I do this work the more I believe in a kind of holiness in our connection to everything on Earth. Holy is the mouse. Holy is the grain the mouse eats. Holy is the seed. Holy are we.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“(��) I am singing now while Rome
burns. We are all just trying to be holy.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Dancing with the veil feels holy, powerful, graceful, and feminine.”
― Rosangel Perez

“The most learned men (I shall not name them) held temporal government for a heathen, human, ungodly thing, as though it were perilous to salvation to be in the ranks of the rulers. Therefore, the priests and monks had so driven kings and princes into the corner, as to persuade them that, to serve God, they must undertake other works, such as hearing mass, saying prayers, endowing masses, etc. In a word, princes and lords who wanted to be pious men held their rank and office as of no value and did not consider it a service of God. They became really priests and monks, except that they did not wear tonsures and cowls. If they would serve God, they must go to church.”
― Martin Luther, On War Against the Turk

“Those who reject moral law and practical holiness fail to understand that holiness is the fundamental characteristic of God upon which all His other moral attributes depend. In particular, God’s holiness is the foundation of His love and gives direction to His love. His holiness determines His love, not vice versa. Because He is holy, He does not love sin or evil. Because He is holy, His love is impartial and eternal rather than arbitrary, capricious, and fickle. God’s love can never contradict or override His holiness.”
― David K. Bernard, Practical Holiness a Second Look

“God is holy; holiness is an essential attribute of His nature. With respect to Him, it means absolute purity and moral perfection. With respect to man, holiness means conformity to the character of God. We must be holy because God is holy (I Peter 1:15-16). It means thinking as God thinks, loving what He loves, hating what He hates, and acting as Christ would act.”
― David K. Bernard, Practical Holiness a Second Look

“When God leaves a hole in our lives, it's likely because He intends for the hole to make us Holy.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“The Holy Land is everywhere”
― Jaco Strydom, Confessions oor kerkwees

“Would you kill a person for things that are extremely holy to you? If your answer is yes, then you are not something we call human, for there is nothing more sacred than human life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The holy hour is now seek the highway of holiness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Dancing with the veil feels holy, powerful, graceful. and feminine.”
― Rosangel Perez

“The idea that holiness is received, not achieved, shouldn’t come as a shock. Every one of us does the same thing with ordinary objects. Take a toothbrush, for example. It’s an ordinary object that has dozens of potential uses. Yet once you put it in your mouth, you’re protective of anyone else using it for anything else. Or take an ordinary bolt of white linen fabric, fashion it into a garment, drape it on a bride, and it becomes unthinkable to wear it on a morning jog. Why? Because when ordinary objects are sanctified for special service, they become “out of bounds”—or to use biblical terminology, “holy.�� Just to ensure we’re on the same page before moving on, let me restate this as clearly as I can: You are holy not because of your performance but because of God’s proclamation. You don’t become holy though religious rites. You don’t develop holiness through sheer discipline. You become holy the millisecond God places his hand on you and says “Mine.”
― Mark E. Moore, Core 52: A Fifteen-Minute Daily Guide to Build Your Bible IQ in a Year

“Only what is holy can make thee holy.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The essence of true holiness is to be Christlike, to live as He lived and, in any given situation, to act as He would act. In fact, holiness means allowing the Holy Spirit of Christ to live in us and rule our lives”
― David K. Bernard, Practical Holiness a Second Look

“Righteousness of faith in Holy God leads to holiness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“How could we be holy, if we do not read the Holy Book?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Are you just a Nibling standing outside of the Holy of Holies or are you a son and daughter in the presence of Abba Father?”
― John M Sheehan

“He had never been an artistic man. He had never been a fastidious man. He had got pleasure from smelling at dung-hills, from making water in his wife's garden, from snuffing up the sweet sweat of those he loved. He had no cruelty, no culture, no ambition, no breeding, no refinement, no curiosity, no conceit. He believed that there was a borderland of the miraculous round everything that existed and that "everything that lived was holy.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“4“Blessed are you when you seek the riches of God and kingdom of heaven and not the poorness of the earth for you will be filled with the spirit of Pentecost and my second coming and all that will last, be accounted for in the day of judgement and payed back to all by the spirit of God according to what they have done in the final day and hour of the rapture in the law, gospel, and rapture of 50 cent.”
― Michael Christopher Kettle, The Holy Book of Mike Kettle

“Who is a holy man? By a single utterance of God’s name the man who gets himself transformed into God is a Holy Man. In meditation a man is transformed into God but it is a slow measure. To be transformed into God at every moment denotes perpetuity to remain in the state of being God. The man who has seen God is also a holy man but not in full measure.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“Joy is finding the holy in the small and the sacred in the everyday.”
― Mary Davis Holt

“The gospel is holy doctrine for good conduct.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The gospel is a holy doctrine for good conduct.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Holy, Holy, Holy is the LORD God, the whole earth is full of His glory.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Holy LORD God leads the way to holiness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures is able to make thee holy.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“It's the kindness of the people that makes a place holy, not the churches and temples.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“Jesus turned the holy water jars of the synagogue into vats of wine.”
― Martin Ellgar, God's Cry to the Church

“Only a holy and courageous person can do anything.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)

“Always try to keep the mind holy.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)