Holiness

Holiness is the state of being holy or sacred.

Sourced

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 368-69.

• Might make a saintship of an anchorite.
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I (1812), Stanza 11.

• Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground.
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (1812), Stanza 88.

• God attributes to place
  No sanctity, if none be thither brought
  By men who there frequent.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book XI, line 836.

• Whoso lives the holiest life
  Is fittest far to die.
  • Margaret Junkin Preston, Ready.

• But all his mind is bent to holiness,
  To number Ave-Maries on his beads;
  His champions are the prophets and apostles,
  His weapons holy saw of sacred writ,
  His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves
  Are brazen images of canonized saints.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), Act I, scene 3, line 58.

• He who the sword of heaven will bear
  Should be as holy as severe;
  Pattern in himself to know,
  Grace to stand, and virtue go;
  More or less to others paying
  Than by self-offences weighing.
  Shame to him whose cruel striking
  Kills for faults of his own liking!
  • William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act III, scene 2, line 275.

• Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.
  • William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act V, scene 1, line 24.

• Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
  • Charles Spurgeon, Gleanings Among the Sheaves, Holiness.