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  • Quand me"  me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e"  tre qui, pour re  gner, n'ait me"  me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

    - Charles Baudelaire
      Journaux intimes.'Fuse  es', no.1.

  •    And he said,Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Exodus 3:5.

  • For I am the L your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDLeviticus11:44.

  • For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms16:10.

  • There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the cityof God, theholy place of thetabernacles ofthemost High.God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 46:4^5.

  •   In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the L of hosts: the whole earth isfull of hisglory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDIsaiah 6:1^4.

  •    Give notthat which isholy untothe dogs, neithercast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 7:6.

  • But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that yeshould shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Peter 2:9.

  • And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not dayand night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation 4:8.

  • The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath. Scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

    -William Blake
      Poetical Sketches,'To Spring'.

  • Is this a holy thing to see In a rich fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand?

    -William Blake
      Songs of Experience,'Holy Thursday'.

  •    Therefore with Angels, and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee, and saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: Glory be to thee,O Lord most High. Amen.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Holy Communion, Praise.

  • O ye wha are sae guid yoursel, Sae pious and sae holy, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell Your Neebours'fauts an folly!

    - Robert Burns
      'Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous', stanza1.

  • A savage place! as holyand enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

    - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      'Kubla Khan'.

  • Toda la cristiandad debe tomar alegr|a y hacer grandes fiestas, y dar gracias solemnes a la SantaTrinidad, con muchas oraciones solemnes por el tanto ensalzamiento que habra  n, en torna  ndose tantos pueblos a nuestra Santa Fe, y despue  s por los bienes temporales que no solamente a la Espan‹  a, mas a todos los cristianos tendra  n aqu | refigerio y ganancia. All Christendom ought to feel joyful and make great Compton-Burnett celebrations and give solemn thanks to the HolyTrinity with many solemn prayers for the great exaltation which it will have, in the turning of so many people to our holy faith, and afterwards for material benefits, since not only Spain but all Christians will hence have refreshment and profit.

    - Christopher Spanish name  Cristo  bal Colo  n Columbus
      Carta del descubrimiento (translated as The Letter in Spanish of Christopher Columbus,1889).

  • Sanctum Satanum meum. My holy Satan.

    -St Peter Damian or Pietro Damiani
    c.1070  Of Hildebrand, later Pope Gregory VII. Letter to Pope Alexander II and Cardinal  Archdeacon Hildebrand.

  • Since I am coming to that holy room Where, withThy choir of saints forevermore, I shall be madeThy Music, as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think now before.

    -John Donne
    c.1623  'Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness'.

  • But we, how shall we turn to little things And listen to the birds and winds and streams Made holy by their dreams, Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?

    -Wilfred Wilson Gibson
      'Lament'.

  • Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise toThee: Holy, Holy, Holy! merciful and mighty! God inThree Persons, blesse'  d Trinity.

    - Reginald Heber
      'Holy, Holy, Holy!'.

  • Holy Deadlock.

    - SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
       Title of novel.

  • Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

    - George Herbert
    'Superliminare', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

  •    A spectre is haunting Europethe spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holyalliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

    - Karl Heinrich Marx
      The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888).

  • O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

    -John Milton
       Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.896^91.

  • May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

    -John Henry Newman
      'Wisdom and Innocence', collected in Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day.

  • Let usnever toleratetheslightest inroad onthe discipline of our holy Church. Let us never consent that she should be made the hireling of the Ministry. Our forefathers would have diednay, perished in hopeless slaveryrather than consent to such degradation.

    - Daniel known as  the Liberator O'Connell
      Speech, Dublin, 23 Feb.

  • Pensez-vous e"  tre saint et juste impune  ment? You think you can be holyand righteous with impunity?

    -Jean Racine
    Athalie, act1, sc.1.

  • The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

    -John Hanning Speke
      Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.

  • Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.

    -Wallace Stevens
      Harmonium,'Sunday Morning', pt.1.

  • I believe in the Church, one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; and nowhere does it exist.

    -William Temple
    Attributed.

  • Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'e  tait en aucune manie'  re ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. This state which was called and is still called the Holy Roman Empire, was not in any way holy, or Roman or an Empire.

    -Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
      Essai sur Les Moeurs et l'EŁ  sprit des Nations.

  • Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

    - Alice Malsenior Walker
      In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens,'To the Editors of Ms. Magazine'.

  • Why should only I† Be cased up, like a holy relic? I have youth And a little beauty.

    -John Webster
      The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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