Holiness Quotes

• Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Holiness
  • Catholicism
  • Survives

• Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Obedience
  • Holiness

• The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.

  

  Nancy Holder
  • God
  • Angels
  • Holiness

• Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Holiness

• Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Death
  • Terror
  • Autumn

• God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

  

  David F. Wells
  • Evil
  • Opposite
  • Holiness

• Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Obedience
  • Holiness
  • Character Of God

• Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Progress
  • Grace
  • Holy

• The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

  

  Michael Horton
  • World
  • Focus
  • Holiness

• You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Simple
  • Duty
  • Extraordinary

• As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Sin
  • Grow

• When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Truth
  • Forget
  • Gospel

• Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Waiting
  • Human
  • Holiness

• Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Smile
  • Holiness

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