To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.