Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.
Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life is fed, nourished, by prayer and is expressed outwardly through mission: inhaling and exhaling. When we inhale, by prayer, we receive the fresh air of the Holy Spirit.
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme
I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.
The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.
Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.
The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.
The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?
No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.
Pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land, and the foundations of their faith. People go to Washington, D. C. to see the workings of government, and the foundation of our country. And fans flock to Nashville to see the foundation of country music, the Grand Ole Opry.
With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
. . . words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.
My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.
My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.
