#holy

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'. ↗

— Edith Stein

#every #holy #holy spirit #living #means

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#before #come #conduct #contact #did

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. ↗

— John Strachan

#disturb #fall #fills #him #his

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking. ↗

— John Strachan

#applying #been #bishop #blessed #compare

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#american #been #country #give #give me

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#tears

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#grow #holy #leave #world #you

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical. ↗

— James Taylor

#almost #come #comes #may #melancholy

NI! Oh no! Not ni! ↗

— Graham Chapman

#holy-grail #humor #funny

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#drinking #felt #holy #i #miss