holiness
Example Sentences
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The Archdiocese of New York recently released an update on reforms to its abuse response protocols, with Dolan arguing that “conversion is possible, healing is possible, holiness is possible even after great sin.”
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2025
“There’s this idea of this false sense of holiness and that this guy doesn’t belong here,” says McBride.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
Nobody calls holiness home—although, ironically, doing so is an all-too-human habit.
From Slate ● May 15, 2024
"There can be no mixing, then, of religious beliefs and violence, of holiness and oppression, of religious traditions and sectarianism," Francis said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023
Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
