Quotes and Sayings About Holiness
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Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.
-- Adrian Rogers -
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 -
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...
-- Ann Voskamp -
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
-- Anne Lamott -
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 -
The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
-- Anne Lamott -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.
-- Arthur Wallis -
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 -
Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
-- Augustus Toplady -
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 -
Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.
-- Billy Graham -
Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
-- Bonnie L. Oscarson -
We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God’s holiness and our sinfulness.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
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 -
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 -
The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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 -
Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love
-- Chiara Lubich -
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 -
When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God’s grace...Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love.
-- Darlene Zschech -
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 -
Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.
-- Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
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 -
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
