Go up and on thy day well done, Its morning promise well fulfilled, Arise to triumphs yet unwon, To holiertasks that God has willed.
If it be true that things like these To heart and eye bright visions bring, Shall not far holier memories To this memorial cling Which needs no mellowing mist of time To hide the crimson stains of crime!
From hollow rite and narrow span Of law and sect by Thee released, Oh, teach him that the Christian man Is holier than the Jewish priest.
The higher and holier heroism of Christian self-denial and sacrifice, in the humble walks of private duty, is seldom so well appreciated.
Strange indeed if God in His word has imposed on us a duty which cannot be discharged but in company with those who say, "Stand by thyself; come not nigh; I am holier than thou"!
Must make an holier minstrelsy, And, heavenly-born, will sing the Things of Heaven.
There can be no greater ambition, no loftier desire, no holier purpose, for Thou holdest the secret of Brotherhood.
Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more For olden time and holier shore: God's love and blessing, then and there Are now and here and everywhere.
And here let the moral hero of the present, and of the future, stay his steps, and make still higher and holier resolves.
In the plenitude of her love she attempts to lead him upward into a broader and a holier sphere.
Many a vulgar Eastern tyrant would hardly have regarded David's sin as a sin at all; but when such a man as David sins, the fact that he has been admitted into a holier sanctuary adds deadliness to the guilt of his sacrilege.
A deeper and holier reverence for all eternal truth which the Bible contains has taken the place of a meaningless letter worship.
Work is holier than worship, and to play is better for man than to pray.
It was taught that it was holier to worship than to wash.
You are no ministers of mine, and your victims, with their heresies, are a thousand times holier in my sight than are you with your pious dogmas and holy sacraments.
That sure would be the worst pretense-- Pretending to be holier than the saints.
Who are we, Stephen, to be more wise than God, Who, to be holier than His Holy Son?
Not one of them could ever produce a higher, holier claim.
Louder voices and holier motives urge us to duty as never before.
While he talks of the rights of races, we exalt the higher, the holier idea proclaimed by the Fathers, and now twice baptized in blood, "individual rights.
This tomb is holier than the ark of Moses, blessed not with types and shadows, but the truth itself.
Thou art a spiritual Eden, holierand diviner than Eden of old.
Hard, proud, 'holier than thou,' is their uniform.
In virtue of our clay, this little ball of earth exacts a certain loyalty of us, while, in our capacity as spirits, we are admitted citizens of an invisible and holier fatherland.
God made the country, and man made the town," is an oft quoted line; and not seldom it is implied that the open or thinly-peopled landscape is somehow a better and holier place for the soul than the thronged city.
I may not tread a holier sphere, I may not upward move, But bound like thee, I linger here And trust a Father's love.
No, no, you are going on a holier errand than I; keep your money; you will want it all if you stay in this city, every thing is so dear.
It was an illusion fresh from his youth: his love for the mother had revived in a gentler and holier form for her child, and now that, too, must perish.
It was as if a graver, purer, holier strain had put to flight the mingled harmony in which heaven and earth seemed almost confounded.
A thing apart from the common unions of earth, different from a commercial partnership, stronger than a political coalition, holier than even a spontaneous friendship.
To her apprehension, the great Lord Wantley had been one of those men who, in another and a holier age, might well have been canonized.
No wonder if they grow no better, no holier or stronger by it; for what strength will chaff and shadows breed?
Lastly, set forms serve unworthy men to hide their unworthiness by, and to be the matter of a controversy in which they may vent their envy against them that are abler and holier than themselves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
