Holier Quotes

41 quotes by 38 authors

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by… — John Updike
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier… — Abraham Kuyper
I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up… — Bernard Goldberg
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time… — Edvard Munch
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There… — Henry Timrod
I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the… — Billy Ray Cyrus
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If… — Donny Osmond
Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look… — Charles Stanley
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and… — Tom Robbins
Thatâ€™s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. Itâ€™s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religionâ€™s… — Jodi Picoult
Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff... I really don't get you. Edward: It's called having integrity.… — Hiromu Arakawa
I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror… — C.S. Lewis
The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness.… — Fulton J. Sheen
I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a… — Max Lucado
There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one… — Wallace D. Wattles
Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou. — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison… — Joseph Collins
Yoga is for those who are completely healthy as far as medical science is concerned, normal. They are not schizophrenic; they are not mad they… — Unknown Author

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