Holiness Quotes
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Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.
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The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.
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Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.
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Obedience is the pathway to holiness.
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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
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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.
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The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.
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God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.
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Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
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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.
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As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
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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.
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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.
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Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.
