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Holy Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
- People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also…
- We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
- Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new…
- Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a…
- The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What…
- Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or…
- The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation,…
- Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new…
More Holy Quotes
- We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people. — Pope Francis
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has… — Michele Bachmann
- Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart. — Johann Arndt
- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I… — Anne Burrell