Holiness Quote by George Eliot

“Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.”

— Daniel Silva

“Vicars, he often thought, are essentially God’s lawyers on the earth. Interpreters of the law, the finders of nuance, sifters through rationalizations to get…

— Julie Anne Long

“But the vicar of St. Botolph's had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by dint of admitting to himself that he…

— George Eliot

“She was certain that the Vicario brothers were not as eager to carry out the sentence as to find someone who would do them…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“How much more properly did the apostles call themselves servants of the present Christ and not vicars of an absent Christ.”

— Martin Luther

“I know faith. Therefore, I must embrace the crown of thorns. I seek the truth. Therefore, I must dare to disobey God.”

— Sunao Yoshida

“Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.”

— Thomas H. Cook

“(The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is made plain. –”

— John Bunyan

“After his own experience in Oxford, he knew that the Christian faith was not about how one behaved but about what one believed, and…

— Eric Metaxas

“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and…

— Milan Kundera

“He forced my soul back into innocent belief, not by empty words or false promises but by consistent action that never failed. He was…

— Rachel Higginson

“Philip came gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it not meant for his…

— William Somerset Maugham