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May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives. -- Pope Francis
Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism "¦ In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism. -- George Elliott Clarke
They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord. -- Pope Francis
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow. -- George William Curtis
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. -- Phillips Brooks
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. -- John Muir
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. -- Dean Inge
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. -- Jose Rizal
The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there. -- Julius Wellhausen
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. -- Billy Graham
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted. -- George Ripley
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. -- Walter Pater
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. -- Dorothea Dix
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Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy. -- Joyce Meyer
A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends. -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children. -- Elizabeth George
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty. -- Samuel Smiles
This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind. -- Cyprian
Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow -- William Shakespeare
Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'. -- Walter Bagehot
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God. -- Saint Augustine
A consecrated space experientially reminds you that there is much more to life than you think. -- Jaggi Vasudev
God is as really present in the consecrated Host as He is in the glory of Heaven -- Paschal Baylon
The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him -- D.L. Moody
But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention. -- Pat Conroy
Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy. -- Pope Francis
I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all. -- Joel-Peter Witkin
Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie. -- John Ruskin
While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled. -- Helen Maria Williams
Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel. -- Nick Frost
Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. -- Bob Black
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. -- Dean Inge
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The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men. -- Peter Forsyth
When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs... -- Pope John Paul II
The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work. -- Henry B. Eyring
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What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask? -- Billy Graham
The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. -- Billy Graham
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory. -- John Calvin
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt. -- Thomas Huxley
If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog. -- Boris Johnson
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