“Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.” WantDoeHappensDependsHolyIntentionMake It HappenConsecrated Life Author:Joyce Meyer
“There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?” WantHumansChristResultsEffortGraceHolyGet BetterReceiving Author:Joyce Meyer
“Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'” WantKindDoeHolyRussiaAlliancesConfrontation Author:Vladimir Putin
“I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.” WantMotherFatherAnimalComedyHolyEmptyFartTauntingHoly GrailMontyHamstersTroughAnimal FoodBest ComedyComedy MovieGreat Comedy Author:Graham Chapman
“Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.” WorldWayWantDifferentGodChristianChangeAcceptingChristianityLordTroubleThis WorldAcceptanceBecomingHolyNormalPatternsCreatorChristian InspirationalKingdomsAgentsUncertaintyChanging The WorldDimensionsMeant To BeStatus QuoKingdom Of GodInsistingTroublemakerAccepting RealityImperfect World Author:Jacques Ellul
“I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action. And I want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. I want to reflect everything about you, and I never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me. I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I'm folded, I am a lie.” KnowsWorldWantEnoughActionMovingLyingHoursDarkThis WorldHolyBlindSilentProfoundAncientNot AloneWaveringFaltering Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.” WantGivingHeartHandsMy HeartHolyLet MeGive MeAskingReceiving Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.” IfsWorldWantNeedsStillsBodyTodaySpiritSufferingFatherKnownBloodSonTomorrowDrinkHolyWorshipGloryPassionateRefuseCommitHoly SpiritCompassionateHis LoveLive Passionately Author:N. T. Wright
“I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)” KnowsWantGivingLittlesWaterHolyVampireHostBlakeGrenadeSheriffsAnita BlakeHoly Water Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.” WorldWantEnoughActionMovingHoursDarkThis WorldHolyNot Alone Book:Shiver Source: Shiver
“Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.” IfsThinkingWayWantShouldSaidLastsHeavenTaughtHolyComfortPlentyGod LovePreservesSundayJamMake You ThinkCatechism Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveHumansEnjoyAbilityEmotionImagineHolyHolinessJoyfulEnjoy Life Author:Matthew Kelly
“We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.” WayWantFeelingsSeemsRunningHolyDrawsDespiseRunning AwayHoliness Of GodMixed Feelings Book:Classic Teachings on the Nature of God Source: Classic Teachings on the Nature of God
“Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom Dancer, For this gift of the world I adore so much And want to belong to. And thank you too, great bear” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantHomeBodyFoundOpportunityPrayerSweetBearsGratitudeHolyDancerRoughTomsTraveledAdoreCrispsUtahConesWyomingGrizzlies Author:Mary Oliver
“It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.” WantSelfMatterHealingVictoryHolyDemandAchievementFindingsLosingCrossesDefeatUglyKingdomsObedienceParadoxSovereignKingdom Of GodBrokennessHoly God Book:Loving God Source: Loving God
“Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.” MenWantFirstsMeanHumanityDiesGivenAbilityAnswersTalentFlowerDisciplineHolyThousandTenThirdsLuckMajorityDetermineSeedsMaturityMasteryNurtureAnother ManWill PowerCharismaFertileTrinityLivestockMinionsHoly TrinityTopsoil Author:David Mitchell
“True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.” PeopleIfsWantBusinessEmotionalHolyConnectionsEndureBrandsHoly GrailEmotional Relationship Author:Albert Chmielowski
“Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.” WayWantYearsTwoWholeJesusHolyThousandYears AgoChristmasCompareThousand YearsControversyBethlehemNazarethNorwich Author:Steve Coogan