"Holiness is doing God's will with a smile."
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"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine."
"Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit."
"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."
"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."
"Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail."
"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."
"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."
"Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith."
"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."
"When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it."
"Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all."
"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"
"Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?"
"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."
"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."
"The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness."
"Holiness sincerity, and faith."
"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!"
"The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside."