Holy Men Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary…
— Saint Augustine
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Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men…
— John Calvin
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We the Jainists of India say every day in our prayer, I worship all perfected souls, I worship all spiritual masters, I worship all spiritual…
— Virchand Gandhi
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...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can…
— Gertrude Bell
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The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is alive and has…
— Stephen J. Binz
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See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the…
— John Cassian
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The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of…
— John Cassian
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Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no holy men, holidays…
— Darrel Ray
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.…
— Ramakrishna
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One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he…
— Brigham Young
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Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
— Bill Vaughan
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[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked…
— John Steinbeck
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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
— Ilona Andrews
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Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in…
— Dean Koontz
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The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
— Saint Bernard
Who Wrote These Holy Men Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Holy Men Quotes as follows: