“In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.” WayKindMomentsHomeLeftSpeakCitiesViolenceDisciplineHolyWeaponsAngryNew WaysForbiddenInsectsPilgrimMeccaAngry Words Author:Karen Armstrong
“I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldHas BeensUsedLeftEasySilenceSawsNew YorkMonthsHolyMouthsGoldenSatParksFascinatingFedsSeventiesGuruRobesFed UpHoly ManCentral ParkLunchtime Author:Doris Lessing
“Radical Christians are not people who wear Christian t-shirts. Radical Christians are those who bear fruit of the Holy Spirit...A little boy, Andrew, a Muslim shot him five times through the stomach and left him on a sidewalk simply because he said, 'I am so afraid, but I can not deny Jesus Christ! Please don't kill me! But I will not deny Him!' He died in a pool of blood, and you talk about being a radical Christian because you wear a t-shirt!” PeopleLittlesSaidI CanChristianSpiritJesusLeftChristBoysFiveBloodBearsHolyPleaseShotsJesus ChristDiedFruitDenyRadicalShirtsHoly SpiritStomachPoolCan NotT ShirtKill MeLittle BoysAndrewSidewalkRadical Christian Author:Paul Washer
“The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.” ThinkingMenWorldFeelsFirstsEarthSpiritualSpiritLeftHeavenBornChurchCompanyGoneWrittenHolyJudgmentAngelFlowEternityOperationsHoly SpiritRise AboveAssemblyFree SpiritGeneral Assembly Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina. If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?” IfsKnowsMenWarTodayTurnsJesusLeftReligiousLeaderTaughtHolyForgivingVillageCheeksBeatenIncarnationSlapAggressorsReligious LeadersHoly WarMedina Author:Eliza Griswold
“While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.” ChildrenDreamEarthLeftImaginationChildhoodHolyWingsSpread Book:The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes Source: The Life and Works of Charles Lamb: In Twelve Volumes
“Take away material prosperity; take away emotional highs; take away miracles and healing; take away fellowship with other believers; take away church; take away all opportunity for service; take away assurance of salvation; take away the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit... Yes! Take it all, all, far, far away. And what is left? Tragically, for many believers there would be nothing left. For does our faith really go that deep? Or do we, in the final analysis, have a cross-less Christianity?” DoeWould BeJoySpiritFaithOpportunityLeftChurchReligiousHealingChristianityEmotionalMaterialsHolyCrossesMiracleSalvationFinalsProsperityBelieverAnalysisHoly SpiritFar AwayAssuranceFellowshipPeace And JoyAssurance Of Salvation Author:Mike Mason
“Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us; allow our leaders to use the fear of terrorism to make us afraid of the truth; cease to think and reason together, allowing others to tell what's in God's mind.” IfsThinkingMindFirstsReasonUseTogetherWinningLostLeftCausesLeaderHolyPleaseTerrorismStrikesCeaseInnocentWarriorAllowingZealotLost Faith Author:Bill Moyers
“The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.” SpiritAsksLeftHeavenUnderstandingPrayerLordTeacherAliveHolyScriptureHoly SpiritComforter Author:Michele Bachmann
“Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)” WorldMindMayWholeJoyLeftStarsWaterBornBehindsPovertyAirLandFieldsHolyClothesCastsWhole WorldForestsAshesEasterRebirthLeft BehindHereafterResumesEpitaphEaster DayLenten Author:C. S. Lewis
“Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.” FirstsFoundLeftFreedomHolyWorshipSoilWorship GodHoly Ground Author:Felicia Hemans
“He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating an image of them here on earth]. Nor is there at all any composite thing or creature endowed with sensation [made by God here on earth] like those in heaven. But the face is a symbol of the rational soul, the wings are the lofty ministers and energies of powers right and left, and the voice is delightful glory in endless contemplation.” MadeSoulEarthFacesEnergyLeftHeavenVoiceReligiousHolyCreaturesCreatingGloryWingsEndlessRationalSymbolsMinistersContemplationSensationsDelightfulLoftyComposites Author:Clement of Alexandria