“Holy, to me just one glance is holy
One touch of your heart to me that's holy…”

“Save me, holy mother, please save me,
I got a heart of gold…
And for your love I'd go hungry and thirsty.
I need a saviour and you're the one…
I throw myself into the arms of mercy,
There's still hope for the runaway son!”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

“Of courtesy it is much less
Than courage of heart or holiness
Yet in my walks it seems to me
That the Grace of God is in courtesy.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer

“To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

“Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

“All the holy scriptures are useless without people having faith into their hearts.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

“Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.”

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church

“Grant us Thy truth to make us free,
And kindling hearts that burn for Thee,
Till all Thy living altars claim
One holy light, one heavenly flame.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician