Sanctify Quotes 

I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence … And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.
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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.

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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))

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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."

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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

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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))

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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)

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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))

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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))

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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.

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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.

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...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.",

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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).

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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))

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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

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