Sanctity Quotes

Know not to revere human things too much.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Man makes holy what he believes.

I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I'm on tour. It's not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

Not merely for country, not merely for humanity, not only for civilization, but for the religion of our Lord itself

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

Clergy had not only identified themselves with the repression of free thought, and of physical science … but that they had proved themselves utterly unfit, for centuries past, to exercise any censorship whatsoever over the thoughts of men: that they had identified themselves with the cause of darkness, not of light; with persecution and torture … the clergy interfered perpetually with the sanctity of family life, as well as with the welfare of the state; that their evil counsels, and specially those of the Jesuits, had been patent and potent causes of much of the misrule and misery of Louis XIV.'s and XV.'s reigns

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

It's wrong to kill.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.

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

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers’ suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

Whoever saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind