Holiness Quotes
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The Lord loves holiness and transparency, and I think that if we are to worship Him properly and lead others to do the same, our day to day lives have to reflect that.
Kathryn Scott
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Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.
William Wilberforce
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All I am saying is that anyone can do this. Anyone can ask and anyone can bless, whether anyone has authorized you to do it or not. All I am saying is that the world needs you to do this, because there is a real shortage of people willing to kneel wherever they are and recognize the holiness holding its sometimes bony, often tender, always life-giving hand above their heads. That we are able to bless one another at all is evidence that we have been blessed, whether we can remember when or not. That we are willing to bless one another is miracle enough to stagger the very stars.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
Catherynne M. Valente
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The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.
Jerry Bridges
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The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
J. C. Ryle
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
William Blake
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For I am God and no mortal, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath” (Hos 11:9). That is an astounding statement. It says: God’s holiness, his Being Wholly Other, in contradistinction to everything human, is disclosed not in his righteous anger, not even in his inscrutable and inaccessible transcendence. God’s being God is revealed in his mercy. Mercy is the expression of his divine essence.
Walter Kasper
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The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
Jerry Bridges
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Where You are, Lord I am free, holiness is Christ in me.
Matt Maher
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Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.
Jerry Bridges
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Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
Mother Teresa
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Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love
Chiara Lubich
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It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith... Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.
Richard Lovelace
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You open up the way of risk. You go ahead of me along the way of holiness, where happy are they who die of love, where the ultimate response is martyrdom.
Brother Roger
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Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.
Mother Teresa
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The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.
Jerry Bridges
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Ivan Turgenev
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He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.
Edmund Gosse
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God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.
J. C. Ryle
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Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.
Mother Angelica
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Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
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By holiness in life, guard the precious Gem of Gems.
Nicholas Roerich