Holiness Quotes

“In the human, lo and behold, the possible apparition of an ontological absurdity. The concern for the other breaches concern for self. This is what I call holiness. Our humanity consists in being able to recognize this priority of the other . . . . It is here in this priority of the other man over me that, before my admiration for creation, well before my search for the first cause of the universe, God comes to mind.”
― Emmanuel Levinas

“Divinity of the heart outshines the divinity of the church every single time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“You won't reach people through god, you shall reach god through people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“As a practitioner, you can create holiness. Holiness cannot be bestowed on us by someone else. ... We are a saint when we can produce holiness.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Enjoying the Ultimate: Commentary on the Nirvana Chapter of the Chinese Dharmapada

“When light is produced, we no longer worry about getting rid of darkness, nor do we wonder where the darkness has gone. We just know that there is light.”
― Ajahn Chah, A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah

“The highest sanctity is abolition of differentiation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“The liquor store sells you the same divinity, that the holy store sells you for even higher price. We'll be born again when we abolish such divinity, by baptizing the soil of society with our sacrifice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“The tears of joy someone sheds because of you, are the only holy water to build the world anew.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“The first desire of heaven is to delight in holiness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Most of us have been stripped off our sensual birthright in the name of God, purity or holiness.”
― Lebo Grand

“To Live A Single Day (The Sonnet)

To live even for a single day,
In the full light of oneness.
To walk even for a single day,
In the full might of kindness.
To talk even for a single day,
In the full sight of humility.
To breathe even for a single day,
In the full height of amity.
To smile even for a single day,
Without a trace of hidden deceit.
To love even for a single day,
As an undeterred force of uplift.
Isn't that the highest sanity?
Isn't that the highest humanity?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“In expansion sanctity is science, in expansion science is sanctity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“To live even for a single day in the full light of oneness. Isn't that the highest sanity?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“There is God in everybody, you don't see it because the God in you is kept asleep by the selfish strife of a materialistic world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“A Jew may say, Hebrew is the language of god. A Christian may say, Aramaic is the language of god. A Muslim will say, Arabic is the language of god. A Hindu will say, Sanskrit is the language of god. I only know that kindness is the language of a human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“If the common affection between spirit and spirit is not the highest religion, nothing is!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“The time has come for a new religion, not yet another organized cult or sect, but a disorganized, undoctrinated religion - the religion of common goodness - the religion of valor and virtue - the religion of non-religious kindness and nonspiritual holiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“To live for god is okay, to live for knowledge is good, to live for people is the greatest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“What is Divinity (The Sonnet)

Hands joined in prayer ain't no divinity,
Hands stretched in help are true divinity.
Saying grace before meal ain't divinity,
Graceful kindness is the actual divinity.
Marking a cross on yourself ain't divinity,
Crossing out the self for others is real divinity.
Confessing errors to a preacher ain't divinity,
Correcting errors by yourself is true divinity.
Selling glories of a dead messiah ain't divinity,
Refusing all glory to lift another is real divinity.
Sitting cross-legged in meditation ain't divinity,
Standing up bold against injustice is true divinity.
Divinity never comes from bible, marvel or vatican.
Burn yourself for others, and you'll know salvation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Hands joined in prayer ain't no divinity, hands stretched in help are true divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Marking a cross on yourself ain't divinity, crossing out the self for others is real divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Sitting cross-legged in meditation ain't divinity, standing up bold against injustice is true divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Because God is holiness itself, we cannot be united to Him unless we are clean of heart--a state implying a twofold condition: atonement for the past and detachment from sin and the occasions of sin for the future.”
― Adolphe Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life: A Treatise On Ascetical And Mystical Theology

“Walking on water without drowning is not miracle but an illusive trade. Real miracle is walking on earth without drowning in hate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“My church is at the feet of the helpless, to lift them up is my worship.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 33

There is no lord almighty, only human almighty,
No magic and mysticism, only nature and oneness.
There are no ten commandments, only one,
Compassion has no religion, character has no race.
There’s no law above life, life alone is the supreme law,
And stagnant law does more harm than action illegal.
There is no holy trinity, only humanity up on its toes,
It is always the human mind playing the triangle.
No more dogmas, no more doctrines and manifestos,
Let us be forthright 'n just foster the spirit of affection.
Once we learn to celebrate each other's existence,
There won't be any need for artificial occasion.
Awake, arise o dynamite, blow up all old paradigm.
Don't fight it, or cuss it, just overwhelm it with your lifeline.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Without holiness of faith, there is no true happiness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism.”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

“There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us calls 'myself.' Personal holiness and global holiness belong together. Those who wake up to the one may well find themselves called to wake up to the other as well.”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 100

All meditate on symbols,
I meditate on people.
Most worship fictitious deities,
I worship those branded unliftable.
People are my almighty,
Oneness is my religion,
Division is degradation,
Unification is illumination.
All is possible for a human who's responsible,
Only the indifferent make excuses.
Possibility is born of responsibility,
Not of whining, praying and limbless wishes.
Real and unreal, put all these talk aside.
Let us be civilization, let us be lifelight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables