Consecrated Quotes
66 quotes by 57 authors
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I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.
— Joel-Peter Witkin
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While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.
— Helen Maria Williams
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They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to…
— Pope Francis
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The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the…
— George Elliott Clarke
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Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.
— Saint Augustine
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What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too…
— Billy Graham
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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be…
— William Henry O'Connell
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Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love; but our life…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling…
— Paul Gauguin
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If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not…
— Alexander MacLaren
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A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out…
— Billy Graham
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Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't…
— Joyce Meyer
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One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of…
— John Muir
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It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a…
— Jose Rizal
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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of…
— C.S. Lewis
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I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
— Pat Conroy
Who Wrote These Consecrated Quotes
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