"Canonize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... precisely in the same way all these diversities of character and condition are necessary to constitute and complete the idea of a Christian Church. For as in ages past it was the delight of the Church to canonize one particular class of virtues—as for instance, purity or martyrdom—so now, in every age, and in every individual bosom, there is a tendency to canonize, or honour, or reckon as Christian, only one or two classes of Christian qualities. For example, if you ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson
... League terminated brilliantly and tumultuously, as it began. The friends of the king rejoiced, the preachers proposed to canonize Brother Henri, and spoke everywhere of the great deeds of the Valois. The favorites said, "The lion is roused." The leaguers said, "The fox has discovered ...
— Chicot the Jester - [An abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"] • Alexandre Dumas
... human sacrifices, immolation, mactation[obs3], infanticide, self-immolation, suttee. idol, golden calf, graven image, fetich, avatar, Juggernath[obs3], lares et penates[Lat]; Baal &c. 986[obs3]. V. worship idols, worship pictures, worship relics; deify, canonize. Adj. idolatrous. Phr. adorer ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... (as I began by remarking), is the following memorandum found in certain ancient MSS.:—"Thus far did Eusebius canonize;"(229) which means either: (1) That his Canons recognise no section of S. Mark's Gospel subsequent to 233, (which number is commonly set over against ver. 8:) or else, (which comes to the same thing,)—(2) That no sections of the same Gospel, after 233, are referred ...
— The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark • John Burgon
... regarded his property now with a parental tenderness, as if it were some living being whom he had trained and educated. The first harvest had given him experience, and opportunity for new work, and he stayed through the autumn and winter in his house in the midst of his workmen, whom he felt inclined to canonize. The men now formed a little colony with their wives and children, and Paul was as happy as possible within the limited boundary of his horizon, between the Suderelbe ...
— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau
... the Church Canonize Saints? A. The Church Canonizes Saints (1) to honor them, and (2) to make us certain that they are in heaven, and may, therefore, be invoked in ...
— Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) • Anonymous
... is God alone, that searcher of hearts, who can truly appreciate the merits of His elect, as it belongs only to the Holy Catholic Church, "that pillar and ground of truth," to canonize them, as we know that nothing impure can enter into heaven, and that Moses himself, that great legislator, and peculiar favorite of heaven, was not entirely spotless in the discharge of his ministry, nor exempt ...
— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier
... them the Taoist said: "I am going to give each of you a wonderful object. You are then to return and spread epidemics among wicked people, beginning in the imperial palace and with the Emperor himself, with the object of forcing him to canonize you." ...
— Myths and Legends of China • E. T. C. Werner
... ever hear of the devil's advocate? a nickname I gave to one of the understrappers of the Colonial office, an ear mark that will stick to the feller for ever! Well, when they go to make a saint at Rome, and canonize some one who has been dead so long he is in danger of being forgot, the cardinals hold a sort of court-martial on him, and a man is appointed to rake and scrape all he can agin him, and they listen very patiently to all he has to say, so as not to do things in a hurry. He is called ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... then! Oh, put on all Your richest lookes, drest for this festivall! Thoughts full of ravisht reverence, with eyes So fixt, as when a saint we canonize; Clap wings with Seraphins before the throne At this eternall coronation, And teach your soules new mirth, such as may be ...
— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace |
