make holy

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“We take ultra-Orthodox students who want to make holy films and try to teach them how to listen to their souls and write films from a deep connection to God,” says Alpert.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2019

It is this God who speaks to us, ‘I am the Lord your God: I am holy: I make holy.’

From Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Murray, Andrew

As we beware of the error of thinking that work for Christ will make holy, let us also watch against the other, the straining after holiness without work.

From Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Murray, Andrew

What else needed he—he, whose greatest joy was to make holy ablutions in the mountain waters, or to climb the summits of the mountains and to wander about wrapt in the thought of God?

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

"Truly," said Père Jerome to the companion who was to assist him in the mass, "this is a sabbath day which we do not have to make holy, but only to keep so."

From Old Creole Days by Cable, George Washington