Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness."
Holy Days quotes
Holy Days
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Isaac Williams
Theologian
"And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it."
Laura Huxley
Author
"Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the day before. The day of the session was kept as a holy day, and there were beautiful fruits and flowers around. The result was, that we had no negative experiences."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence."
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