Holiness Quotes - Page 13

• It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mean, Men, Here I Am

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

  John Donne

  Humility, Night, Men

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.149

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• Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

  R. C. Sproul

  Firsts, Force, Disciple

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.53, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• 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

  Men, Veils, Might

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

  Augustus Toplady

  Free Gifts, Repentance, Eternal Life

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

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• We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage: ‘The gate is narrow’. Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small. It must not move us to find that we are reckoned singular, and peculiar, and bigoted, and narrow minded. This is the ‘narrow way’. Surely it is better to enter into eternal life with a few, than to go to ‘destruction’ with a great company

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Moving, Way

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• Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- books in which Christ and the Holy Ghost have their rightful office-- books in which justification, and sanctification, and regeneration, and faith, and grace, and holiness are clearly, distinctly, and accurately delineated and exhibited, these are the only books which do real good. Few things need reviving more than a taste for such books as these among readers.

  J. C. Ryle

  Real, Book, Practice

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

  Matthew Henry

  Men

  Matthew Henry (197?). “Isaiah to Malachi”

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• The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

  Matthew Henry

  Damage, Graves

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.2921, Harper Collins

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Real, Heart, Produce

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• True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.

  Pope John Paul II

  Lying, Mean, School

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• There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Weakness, Needs

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.292, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us pray with fervour, let us live in holiness, let us preach constantly, and preach with fire, and let us so live, that we may impress our age, and leave our footprints on the sands of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Men, Fire

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.511

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• Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

  D. A. Carson

  Jealous, Love Is, Wrath

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• The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.

  Edmund Clowney

  Christian, Mean, Curiosity

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• 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

  Degrees, Earth, Holy Places

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• A human encounter with holiness is devastating. It refuses to allow us to be impressed with the things of the world we’ve been chasing. It refuses to allow us to remain comfortable in our sin. It refuses to allow us to remain on the throne of our lives. And it leads us to a relationship with the only One who can perfectly love us, who can forgive all our sins, and who can make us into His likeness. Our encounter with His holiness is our devastation. And our devastation is our salvation.

  Todd Agnew

  Forgiving, Encounters, Thrones

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

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Art, Clean, Earth

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

  Matt Maher

  Christ, Lord, Where You Are

  FaceBook post by Matt Maher from May 14, 2013

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• Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with His presence, and imbued with His Spirit that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Christian, Character, Men

  Adoniram Judson Gordon (1897). “Yet Speaking: A Collection of Addresses”

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Want, Ifs

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• Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable.

  David Brainerd

  Pain, Soul, Desire

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.80

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• 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

  Thinking, Helping, Wonder

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Wise, Expectations

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• 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

  Life, Real, Lovers

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

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