Holiness Quotes - Page 2

• Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.

  Paul Washer

  Real, Feelings, Mind

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2011

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• Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Conformity, Holiness Of God

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.75, Tyndale House

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

  Joel Beeke

  Alone With God, Littles, Alone Time

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Sinfulness, Knows

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

  C. Wagner

  Jesus, Want, God Love

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

  William Wilberforce

  Shortcuts, Whole Life, Whole

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• God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Blessing, Men, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.499, Discovery House

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

  Matthew Henry

  Umpires, Attributes, Sinner

  Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry (1847). “Psalm LXIV-Malachi”

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• They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Attitude, Abnormal

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• What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).

  John Owen

  Writing, Soul, Sanctification

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• Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

  Saint Augustine

  Real, Accomplishment, Grace

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• 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

  Design, Purpose, Firsts

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Aliens

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2015

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• We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

  John Bradford

  Christian, Never Settle, Principles

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• I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Winning, Two

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “God's Grace to You”, p.7, Whitaker House

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• The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, People, Needs

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.86, Baker Books

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• My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

  Francis Asbury

  God, Christian, Religious

  "Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church".

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• In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Perfection, Joy

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Order, Accommodate

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, God, Faith

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.269, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Punishment, People, Desire

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• No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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• 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

  Heart, Humble, Arms

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• Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Heart, Blessing

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• Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Growing Up, Heart, Principles

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