"I'm a holy man minus the holiness." — E. M. Forster
"I'm a holy man minus the holiness."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…
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More Holiness Quotes
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How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not…
— William Blake
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
— Abraham Cahan
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I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I…
— Donald Cargill
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these…
— Donald Cargill
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In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what…
— Watchman Nee
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All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved…
— John Cassian
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It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who…
— Austin Phelps
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not…
— Unknown Author
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