Holiness Quotes:

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Christian, Way, Holiness

Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves. Whatever He condemned, He still condemns. Today we have what they call the relativity of morals. But remember this God never changes. Holiness and righteousness are conformity to the will of God. And the will of God never changes for moral creatures.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Thinking, Holiness, Today

Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

- Alexander MacLaren

topic: Heaven, Holiness, Christ

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Inspirational, Grace, Holiness

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

- Anne Lamott

topic: Laughter, Holiness, Form

You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Laughter, Robins, Holiness

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Spiritual, Laughter, Holiness

Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Book, Degrees, Holiness

Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is impossible to obtain a Scriptural knowledge that the merits of Christ's finished work are reckoned to my account, except by proving that the efficacy of the Holy Spirit's work is evident in my soul.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Soul, Principles, Holiness, Finished Work

In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Heart, People, Holiness

Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.

- Arthur Wallis

topic: Men, Holiness, Revival

That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration of Scripture.

- Augustus Toplady

topic: Holiness, Scripture, Finals

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

- Augustus Toplady

source: Augustus Toplady (1794). “The Works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.250

topic: Holiness, Repentance, Eternal Life, Free Gifts

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

source: Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

topic: Waiting, World, Holiness

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

- Billy Graham

topic: Forgiveness, Depth, Holiness, Holiness Of God

Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.

- Bonnie L. Oscarson

topic: Home, Holiness, Temples

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

- C. J. Mahaney

topic: Choices, Holiness, Mature

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Church, Holiness, Virtue

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

- Charles Simeon

topic: Eye, Long, Holiness, Whiteness

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Grace, Saint, Holiness

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Delight, Holiness, Pleasure

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

- Chiara Lubich

topic: Attachment, Holiness, Aim

The Holy Spirit has a sanctifying influence. The influence of the Holy Spirit tends towards sanctification, purity and holiness. Expect to live a life of greater purity, sanctification and holiness when under the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit.

- Dag Heward-Mills

topic: Sweet, Holiness, Spirit

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Self, Holiness, Path

The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Regret, Holiness, Path

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

- Donald Cargill

topic: Purpose, Holiness, Littles

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Men, Literature, Holiness, Minus, Holy Man

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

- Ed Stetzer

source: FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Mar 11, 2010

topic: People, Culture, Holiness, Sins Not

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

- Elisabeth Elliot

topic: Majority, Holiness, Want, Driving Force, Holiness Of God

We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy Presence. We are holy in His holiness, loving in His love, strong in His strength, tender in His tenderness, patient in His patience, calm in His peace, and consecrated in His consecration.

- F. E. Marsh

topic: Strong, Holiness, His Love, Possessed, Strong Love

When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.

- Frank Bartleman

topic: Holiness, Fierce, Sweetness

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

- Franz Werfel

source: "The Song of Bernadette". Book by Franz Werfel, 1941.

topic: Holiness, Mystery, Divine

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

- Frederick William Faber

source: Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.34

topic: Winning, Men, Holiness

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

- Frederick William Faber

source: Frederick William Faber (1857). “The Creator and the Creature Or the Wonders of Divine Love”, p.58

topic: Holiness

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

- G. Campbell Morgan

topic: Temptation, Overcoming, Holiness

Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.

- George W. Bush

topic: Holiness, Speech, Bushism

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

- George Whitefield

source: George Whitefield (1958). “Select Sermons of George Whitefield”, Banner of Truth

topic: Doctrine, Holiness, Christianity, Holiness Of God

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.

- Hannah Whitall Smith

topic: Cutting, Soul, Holiness

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

- Harold S. Kushner

topic: People, Holiness, Share

Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

- Henry Edward Manning

source: Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press (2016). “Henry Edward Manning Collection [2 Books]”, p.599, Aeterna Press

topic: Heart, Doe, Holiness

Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.

- Hilda Doolittle

topic: Hunting, Holiness, Worship

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

- Hildegard of Bingen

topic: Holiness, Holy, Draws

If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Men, Redemption, Holiness

The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Holiness, Firsts, Steps, Sinfulness, Higher Standards

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Views, Holiness, Corruption

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

- J. I. Packer

topic: Holiness, Soil, Adoration, Rooted

Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

- J. I. Packer

topic: Humble, Mind, Holiness, Divine Wisdom, Teachable

In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.

- J. Vernon McGee

topic: Order, New Life, Holiness

He cleared his throat and reminded himself that if you pissed Her Holiness off, they'd need barbecue tongs to pick up your steaming pieces.

- J.R. Ward

topic: Needs, Pieces, Holiness

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

- Jean Racine

topic: Thinking, Holiness, Injustice, Impunity

If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right way. In reality, holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God's plan. And this fidelity is equally within everyone's capacity in both its active and passive exercise.

- Jean-Pierre de Caussade

topic: Exercise, Reality, Holiness, Insurmountable

God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Responsibility, Giving, Holiness

Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Character, Holiness, Conformity, Character Of God, Holiness Of God

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.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Christian, Character, Holiness, Character Of God, Holiness 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.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Commitment, Order, Holiness

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

- Jim Caviezel

topic: Ideas, Calling, Holiness

Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

- Joel Beeke

topic: Holiness, Littles, Alone Time, Little Time, Alone With God

The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.

- John Angell James

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 314, 1895.

topic: Inspire, Example, Holiness, Inquirers, Associates

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

- John Angell James

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 315, 1895.

topic: Holiness, Latter, Enjoy

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

- John Brown

source: John Brown (1866). “Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter”, p.117

topic: Thinking, Doe, Holiness

Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

- John Flavel

topic: Blood, Holiness, Christ

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

- John Flavel

source: John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.555

topic: Grace, Affliction, Holiness

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

- John of Ruysbroeck

topic: Holiness, Goodness

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

- John Owen

topic: Christian, Believe, Holiness, Christian Doctrine, Christian Worship

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

- John Stott

topic: Holiness, Might, Sin

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

- John Wesley

topic: Phrases, Holiness, Christ

We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.

- Jonathan Martin

source: Jonathan Martin (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.165, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Strong, Needs, Holiness

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

- Joris-Karl Huysmans

topic: Art, Earth, Holiness

Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice.

- Joseph Alleine

topic: Practice, Holiness, Down And, Conversion, Repairing

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

- Joseph Hall

topic: Hate, Calling, Holiness, Eminence

The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

topic: Views, Perfection, Holiness

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Jesus, Heart, Holiness

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

topic: Thinking, Holiness, Worship, Day To Day Life

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

- Kenneth Rexroth

source: Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.248, New Directions Publishing

topic: Life, Real, Holiness

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

- Kevin DeYoung

topic: Perfection, Holiness, Expecting, Evangelical

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

- Kevin DeYoung

topic: Design, Purpose, Holiness

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

- Kevin DeYoung

topic: Running, Holiness, Way, Running Hard

Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption

- Kevin DeYoung

topic: Goal, Redemption, Holiness

The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.

- L. Lionel Kendrick

topic: Degrees, Earth, Holiness, Holy Places

There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.

- Leighton Ford

topic: Jesus, Holiness, Detours

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

- Leland Ryken

source: Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.301, Harper Collins

topic: Spiritual, Quests, Holiness

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Holiness, Want

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Holiness, Sinfulness

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

- Marcus Mumford

topic: Holiness, Approach

True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us.

- Mark Hart

source: Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.18, Franciscan Media

topic: Holiness

Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.

- Martyn

topic: Order, May, Holiness

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.

- Mary Oliver

topic: Light, Done, Holiness

Where You are, Lord I am free, holiness is Christ in me.

- Matt Maher

source: FaceBook post by Matt Maher from May 14, 2013

topic: Holiness, Christ, Lord

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.

- Matt Redman

topic: Faces, Earth, Holiness, Holiness Of God

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

- Matthew Henry

topic: Men, Holiness

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

- Matthew Henry

topic: Umpires, Holiness, Attributes, Attributes Of God

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

- Mother Angelica

source: "Mother Angelica Live", www.imdb.com. (1983-).

topic: Holiness, Requirements, Wimps

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Jesus, Doe, Holiness, Extraordinary Things

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

- Mother Teresa

topic: Grace, Progress, Holiness

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

- Mother Teresa

topic: God, Holiness, God's Will

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Holiness, Gods Will

Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life.

- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

topic: Women, Grace, Holiness

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

topic: Progress, Holiness, Holy

It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

topic: Hurt, Choices, Holiness, Sins Not

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

topic: Thinking, Veils, Holiness, Affected

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Happiness, Men, Holiness, Utmost For His Highest

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Holiness, His Love, Firsts, Holiness Of God

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

- Paracelsus

topic: Earth, Holiness, Kingdoms

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

- Paul David Tripp

topic: Focus, Holiness, Able

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

- Phil Robertson

topic: Godly, Wings, Holiness

Once we repossess a sense of our own holiness, we will recover the sense of the holiness of the world... Only in this way will we once again become aware that our destiny and the destiny of nature are one and the same.

- Philip Sherrard

source: Philip Sherrard (1992). “Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology”, Sophia Perennis

topic: Destiny, Holiness, Way

Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Mistake, Holiness, Doe

How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.

- Pope Clement I

topic: Blessed, Self, Holiness

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

- Pope Francis

topic: Mean, Holiness, Ordinary Things, Faith And Love, Extraordinary Things

Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Determination, Holiness

Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Numbers, World, Holiness, Reserved

Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Humility, World, Holiness

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.

- R. A. Torrey

topic: Eye, Blood, Holiness

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Order, Holiness, Presbyterians, Accommodate

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Holiness, Modern, Holiness Of God, Lack Of Understanding

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

- Ravi Zacharias

topic: Defining, Holiness, Moments

Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.

- Ravi Zacharias

topic: Christian, Evil, Holiness, Good Vs Evil

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

- Richard Alleine

source: Richard Alleine, Joseph Alleine (2000). “Heaven Opened: The Riches of God's Covenant Grace”, p.76, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

topic: Heart, Men, Holiness, Sanctify

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

- Richard Gere

topic: World, Holiness, Quantum, Quantum Leap, Nobel Prize

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

- Richard Mentor Johnson

topic: Christian, Deeds, Holiness, Meekness

I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.

- Robert E. Murray

topic: Long, Grace, Holiness

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

- Saint Francis de Sales

topic: Christian, Holiness, May

Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

- Salvatore J. Cordileone

topic: Brother, Gay, Holiness

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

- Shirley Jackson

topic: House, Atmosphere, Holiness

The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so live, you do not live in the presence of the Holy One of Israel.

- Sinclair B. Ferguson

topic: Israel, Holiness, Way, Holiness Of God

I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.

- Smith Wigglesworth

topic: Hands, World, Holiness, Worldliness

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

- Starhawk

topic: Hierarchy, Sacred, Holiness

The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Water, Balance, Holiness, Condemnation, Microcosm

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Humanity, Holiness, Pearls

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

- Therese of Lisieux

topic: Want, Holiness, God's Will

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

- Therese of Lisieux

topic: Humble, Heart, Holiness, Audacious

Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.

- Thomas Chalmers

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 602, 1895.

topic: Simple, Blood, Holiness, Mediation, Saviour

Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

- Thomas Cogswell Upham

source: Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848). “Religious Maxims, Having a Connection with the Doctrines and Practice of Holiness”, p.8

topic: Holiness, Sun, Rays

Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.

- Timothy Keller

topic: Baby, Jesus, Holiness, Holiness Of God

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

- Vera Farmiga

topic: Father, Holiness, Importance, Innate

Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

- Watchman Nee

topic: Jesus, Giving Up, Holiness, Lordship, Consecration

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

topic: Mean, Men, Holiness, Depraved

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

- William Wilberforce

topic: Shortcuts, Holiness, Whole Life

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

- Abdu'l-Bahá

topic: Holiness, Spirituality, Cleanliness, Aspects Of Life

The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.

- Alma Luz Villanueva

topic: Heaven, Challenges, Holiness

Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

- Bahá'u'lláh

topic: Heart, Envy, Holiness

I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration. Wherever you open it, any page, you know that you are in the presence of something that exists nowhere else.

- Hershel Shanks

source: Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

topic: Inspiration, Holiness, Pages, Divine Inspiration

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Blessing, Rainbow, Holiness

Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Waiting, Holiness, Holy

Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Art, Self, Holiness, Rebuttal

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

- Mardy Grothe

topic: Pride, People, Holiness, Sin Of Pride

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

- Max Anders

topic: Holiness, Commandments

That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of education and ministers living in contradiction where they speak about holiness on one side but yet are living in adultery on the other.

- Otis Moss III

topic: Unemployment, Holiness, Sides, Lack Of Education

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness

- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

topic: People, Needs, Holiness

The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.

- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

topic: People, Needs, Holiness

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

- Steven J Lawson

topic: Holiness, Path, Obedience

I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness, when they don't have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God's going to yank His relationship from them

- Alan Chambers

source: Source: www.christianpost.com

topic: Thinking, Holiness, Helping, Condemnation

It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.

- Anthony of Sourozh

topic: Vision, Saint, Holiness, Sinfulness, Holiness Of God

Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.

- C. Wagner

topic: Jesus, Holiness, Want, Jesus Love

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

- Paul Stewart

topic: Doctrine, Holiness, Hell, Holiness Of God

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

- Roland Allen

source: Roland Allen (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.27, The Lutterworth Press

topic: Men, Redemption, Holiness, Redeeming, Redeeming Love

Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival.

- Steve Camp

topic: Prayer, Blessing, Holiness

It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.

- Louis Berkhof

source: Louis Berkhof (1996). “Systematic Theology”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Doe, Fundamentals, Holiness, Holiness Of God, Attributes Of God

A holy spirit lives within you.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

topic: Holiness, Spirit, Holy

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.141

topic: People, Coats, Holiness

Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14].

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Luxury, Heaven, Holiness

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

- Florence Nightingale

source: Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.578, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

topic: Unseen, Holiness, Divine, Divine Nature

Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

- Starhawk

source: "The Fifth Sacred Thing". Book by Starhawk, 1993.

topic: Holiness, Hierarchy, Sacred

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “I Have Landed”, p.47, Harvard University Press

topic: Fascination, Details, Holiness

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Real, Heart, Holiness

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Dwelling, Holiness, Scripture

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Holiness, Knows

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Shy, Holiness, Too Much, Much Love

You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Important, Holiness, Matter

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Church, Holiness, Pope, Constantinople, Patriarch

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

- Paul Tillich

source: Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.19, University of Chicago Press

topic: Holiness, Awareness

What is holiness? The end product of what holiness is it's to love God in the same way He loves Himself; it's to esteem God as much as He esteems Himself, and to separate yourself unto that love, and to keep yourself in that love.

- Paul Washer

topic: Holiness, Way, God Love

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Holiness, Gestures, Holy

It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.15, NavPress

topic: Doubt, Important, Holiness

The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.10, Tyndale House

topic: Grace, Holiness, Pursuit

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

source: Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.52, NavPress

topic: Character, Holiness, Conformity, Character Of God

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

- Jerry Bridges

topic: Christian, Holiness, Spirit, Bootstraps

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.111, NavPress

topic: Pathways, Holiness, Obedience

...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.

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.41, NavPress

topic: Responsibility, Doe, Holiness

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

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.15, NavPress

topic: Hatred, Holiness, Sin

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

source: Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.30, NavPress

topic: Use, Holiness, Spirit

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

- Jerry Bridges

source: Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24”, p.90, Tyndale House

topic: True Joy, Joy, Holiness

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: War, Holiness, Holy

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.

- Alexander Whyte

source: Alexander Whyte (1905). “The Walk, Conversation and Character of Jesus Christ Our Lord”

topic: Book, Heart, Holiness

See what an atmosphere of holiness is here the pure air of the Ganga what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a place like this!

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

topic: Air, Atmosphere, Holiness, Assemblage

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.120, Advaita Ashrama

topic: Faith, Holiness, Sincerity

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Holiness, Virtue, Grows

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

- M. Scott Peck

source: M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lying, Grace, Holiness, Questioning Everything

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

- Philip Yancey

topic: Opposites, Grace, Holiness

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

- Phillips Brooks

source: Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons preached in English churches, and other sermons”

topic: Heaven, Doe, Holiness

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

- Joan D. Chittister

topic: Live Life, Holiness, Made

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

- Joan D. Chittister

topic: Perspective, Holiness, Steps, Authority Figures, Blind Obedience

Holiness never goes out of fashion.

- Pope Benedict XVI

source: Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.9, Ignatius Press

topic: Fashion, Holiness

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Prayer, Holiness, Source

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: People, Humanity, Holiness

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Religion, Holiness, Piety

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

- R. A. Torrey

source: R. A. Torrey (1991). “The Best of R. A. Torrey”

topic: Prayer, Holiness, Study

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

- R. C. Sproul

source: Twitter post from Dec 10, 2015

topic: Holiness, Aliens

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

- R. C. Sproul

source: Twitter post from Feb 14, 2015

topic: People, Holiness, Holiness Of God

The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Men, Veils, Holiness, Holiness Of God