492 Quotes About Holiness

That’s when I have to ask him. “Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?”“What? Because I’m a priest?” He finishes the dregs of his coffee. “Sure. God knows what’s important.

I don't go to church, wherever I stand turns into a church.

Humanity is the highest form of love there is, and love needs no lobby, label or ideology, for love itself is everything that is human about us - we are either living in it, enveloped in its wholeness or we are analyzing it with intellect from outside while dying for a taste of it.

Love is boundless, love is limitless, love is conditionless. People have made a mess of this world, because they place barriers around love - because they have raised walls and imprisoned the most universal lifegiving force of the world behind those walls.

Holiness that starts and ends in books, is no holiness.

Books do not make you holy, places do not make you holy, prayers do not make you holy, rituals do not make you holy, what does make you holy is your oneness with others.

Humanity first, nationality later - compassion first, religion later - acceptance first, formalities later.

Defying evidence and blabbering mystical mumbo-jumbo don't make a person a sage or a monk, what does is a person's practical understanding of the world we live in, accompanied by a burning urge to bring that understanding into practice to lift humanity from the darkest pit of degradation.

I have spent much of my adult life trying to figure out how to experience holiness, and now I know that the struggle to figure things out is antithetical to the experience. You simply relax into holiness the way you would a warm bath.