#holy

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#melancholy #seductive

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#growth #holy-spirit #self #experience

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#day #days #god #him #holy

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts ↗

— J.D. Greear

#gospel #gospel-truth #holy-spirit #life-change #beauty

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#holy #i #man #minus

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#democracy #destruction #difference #does #holy

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#fleet #man #melancholy #must #rare

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#always #faith #first #god #had

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#box #candles #catholic #catholic church #church

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake. ↗

— Walter Lang

#direct #holy #holy spirit #miraculous #mistake