Famous quotes containing the words holiness, christian and/or church:
“Say next to holiness is the will thereto,
And next to love is the desire for love,
The desire for its celestial ease in the heart,
Which nothing can frustrate, that most secure,
Unlike love in possession of that which was
To be possessed and is.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“I wouldnt take the Pope too seriously. Hes a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
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