Quotes about Sanctity

They testify that nature is not changed but is preserved by God. But the stupid and crazy mob of monks has taught that parents, wives, and the world should be abandoned and that one should withdraw into a monastery. But what is to become of human society or finally of all life? Surely that was not sanctity or worship of God, as they have called it; it was satanic madness.

An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

You shall not murder.

It must not be used to anoint an ordinary man, and you must not make anything like it with the same formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.

Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’

You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.