Holiness Quotes
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In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.
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Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.
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Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.
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The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
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The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
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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.
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God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.
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Where You are, Lord I am free, holiness is Christ in me.
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He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.
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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
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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.
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It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.
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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.
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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.
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Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us.
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...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.
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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.
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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.
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Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.
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Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.
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Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
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Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
