Sanctify Quotes
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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.
To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.
richard alleine— P. 317. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.
charlie chaplin— Monsieur Verdoux (1947); but Chaplin in this line is quoting a far older statement of Bishop Beilby Porteus: "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero."
Three things there be in man's opinion dear,Fame, many friends, and fortune's dignities:False visions all, which in our sense appear,To sanctify desire's idolatry.
fulke greville— CVI
There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the world began.
charles hodge— P. 87. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
yitzhak rabin— 1994 Nobel Peace Prize lecture (10 December 1994)
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
samuel rutherford— P. 530. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.
huston smith— Discussing the beliefs of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.
harold innis— Industrialism and Cultural Values p.138.
If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.
kenyon, lloyd, 1st baron kenyon— Williams' Case (1797), 26 How. St. Tr. 704.
Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.
— Charles Spurgeon, p. 9. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.
— Lord Kenyon, Williams' Case (1797), 26 How. St. Tr. 704.
The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.
— Harold Innis, "Industrialism and Cultural Values", in The Bias of Communication (1951), p. 138.
...the Zionist-Crusader alliance resorted to killing and arresting the truthful Ulama and the working Da'ees (We are not praising or sanctifying them; Allah sanctify whom He pleased). They killed the Mujahid Sheikh Abdullah Azzaam, and they arrested the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmad Yaseen and the Mujahid Sheikh Omar Abdur Rahman (in America).
— Sheikh Osama bin Laden in his 1996 fatwa, "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places.",
You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.
— Cardinal James Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
— P. 530. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Great virtues may draw attention from defects , they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem .
— Robert G. Ingersoll, in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Cosimo, Inc., 1 January 2009, p.326
