Holy oil may refer to:
- Holy anointing oil, a perfume used to anoint the vessels of the Jewish Tabernacle
- Holy Oil (Christianity), a consecrated oil used in the administration of certain sacraments and ecclesiastical functions
- Holy Oil of Aspiration, a ceremonial magical oil blended from aromatic plant materials
- Holy oil from pilgrimage sites, see Monza ampullae
Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or oil:
“O, better that her shattered hulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)