Holiness Quotes

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

  Oswald Chambers

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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• Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Jesus, Hungry

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• When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to do before. There's a change in the heart; there's a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with. As long as young people are asking, 'Can I get away with this?' or 'Can I get away with that?' I wonder if they're regenerate. If they're asking, instead, 'How can I grow in holiness?' then I suspect they've begun to understand.

  D. A. Carson

  Heart, Long, People

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• If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Savior used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is, hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Flames

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

  Mother Teresa

  God, God's Will

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• 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

  Luxury, Heaven, Holy

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Knows

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

  Mark Hart

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

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• 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

  Christian, Character, Patterns

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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.

  Jerry Bridges

  Hatred, Sin, Infinite

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

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• The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Mourn, Remains

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• Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

  Stephen Charnock

  Eye, Hands, Delight

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

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Way, Christian Inspirational

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• If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Mistake, Thinking

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Gleanings Among The Sheaves”, p.16, SHELDON AND COMPANY

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• 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

  Christian, Spirit, Holy

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• Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

  Mother Teresa

  Simple, Luxury, People

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• Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hate, Mind, World

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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

  Kevin DeYoung

  Goal, Redemption

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

  J. C. Ryle

  Firsts, Steps, Realizing

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.36, Letcetera Publishing

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• If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Blessing, Perfect

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.444, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.

  Mother Teresa

  Needs, Privilege

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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Majority, Want, Kingdoms

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “Discipline: The Glad Surrender”, p.42, Revell

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• Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Temples, Plans

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", (p. 369), 1922.

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• 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

  Doctrine, Christianity, Holiness Of God

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

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• The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Justice, Announcements, Standards

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.371, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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