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Jonathan Martin Political Commentator
Holiness

"We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Holiness

"You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
Holiness

"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."

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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
Holiness

"Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground"

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Holiness

"There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"See what an atmosphere of holiness is here the pure air of the Ganga what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a place like this!"

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