Sanctity Quotes

Sanctity Quote of the day

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less.

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.

The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.

There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.