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  • A voice suited to "Heilig, heilig ist Gott der Allmächtige" is not, in my view, suited to "Gnade sei mit euch."

    Archive 2008-04-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • A voice suited to "Heilig, heilig ist Gott der Allmächtige" is not, in my view, suited to "Gnade sei mit euch."

    Another Buch Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • Took Di to her appointment, and then we hit Gustav's for dinner, where I loaded up on smoked bier sausage, chicken jäegerschnitzel, rotisserie turkey, mashed potatoes, braised red cabbage, and Swiss cheese fondue, finished off with edelweiss cake (vanilla cake layered with raspberry purée and white chocolate) ... and heilig scheisse, was it all fabulous.

    Rock'N'Roll Wisdom archmage 2006

  • And in twentieth-century study of religion, our topic was shaped by Rudolf Otto, who wrote in German and for whom therefore heilig was, as we shall see, usefully ambiguous.

    HOLY (THE SACRED) WILLARD GURDON OXTOBY 1968

  • ** "Was ist unschuldig, heilig, menschlich gut, Wenn es der Kampf nicht ist ums Vaterland?"

    The Prussian Mind 1917

  • It is a curious thing, which I remarked long ago, and have often turned in my head, that the old word for ‘holy’ in the Teutonic languages, heilig, also means ‘healthy.

    Paras. 25-51 1909

  • You should always look at the heilig, which means ‘holy’ as well as ‘healthy.

    Paras. 25-51 1909

  • Dieweil beide unser Leib und Seele ein Tempel des Heiligen Geistes sind: so will Er, dass wir sie beide sauber und heilig bewahren; verbietet derhalben alle unkeusche Thaten, Geberden, Worte, Gedanken,

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Gottes Name ist zwar an ihm selbst heilig; aber wir bitten in diesem Gebet, dass er bei uns auch heilig werde.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Die, so nicht erwaehlet sind, muessen verdammet werden, und koennen nicht zur Seligkeit kommen, wenn sie gleich tausendmal getauft wuerden und taeglich zum Abendmahl giengen, auch so heilig und unstraeflich lebten, als es immer moeglich.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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