Holy

Famous quotes containing the word holy:

    Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
    The holy tree is growing there;
    From joy the holy branches start,
    And all the trembling flowers they bear.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this congregation, to join together this Man and this Woman in holy Matrimony.
    Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Exhortation,” (1662)

    We have suffered much, we have worked much, we have made much effort to redeem, in the eyes of God, what was unconventional in our happiness by what was holy in our love.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)