Holiness Quotes - Page 6

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

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Evil, Answers

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2016

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• 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

  Mistake, Doe, Repentance

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• Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.

  Thomas Aquinas

  May, Spirit, Holy

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• God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

  J. C. Ryle

  Thinking, Together, Linked

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• Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Soul, Brightness

  Jonathan Edwards (1843). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.21

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• In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Goal, Damnation, Redemption

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• All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

  John Cassian

  Father, Humility, Perfection

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• 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

  Thinking, Today, Moral

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• He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Heaven, Praying

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• The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Integrity, Exercise

  John Calvin (1985). “On God and Political Duty: Calvin”, Prentice Hall

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• 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

  Vision, Saint, Sin

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• If you want to be holy, if you seek meaning in your life, start looking into your own life and attacking your pride in all of its many forms. God will give you extraordinary light and the ultimate reward of holiness. For your holiness relies not on what you do, but on what you allow God to do through you. Have courage. God will perfect you.

  Mother Angelica

  Pride, Light, Giving

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

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• autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Autumn, Saint

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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  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

  Thinking, Doe, Austerity

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

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• We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Environmental, Body, Earth

  Joan D. Chittister (2004). “Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.181, Sheed & Ward

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

  C. J. Mahaney

  Choices, Mature

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

  Jerry Bridges

  Grace, Pursuit, Doomed

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

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• In the final analysis our greatest problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish , that's our problem. And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes.

  Floyd McClung

  Selfish, Heart, Pride

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• The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Neglect, Hindrance

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• Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, God Love, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1495, Barbour Publishing

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• My people's greatest need is my personal holiness

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  People, Needs

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• The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three other interrelated biblical truths: human sin, God's holiness, and the cross of Christ.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Biblical, Horror Stories

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• 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

  Hands, World, Holy

  Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.88, Whitaker House

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

  Frank Bartleman

  Fierce, Sweetness, Contact

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• God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Perfect, Special, Wish

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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