Holiness Quotes
-
I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.
-
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.
-
Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
-
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.
-
Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love
-
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.
-
By holiness in life, guard the precious Gem of Gems.
-
Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.
-
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.
-
Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.
-
To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.
-
Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
-
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.
-
Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.
-
Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.
-
Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.
-
The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.
-
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
-
True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us.
-
Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.
-
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
-
The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
-
When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.
-
Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.
