Holiness Quotes - Page 7

• The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not a question of privilege or of spiritual elitism. It is a question of a grace offered to all the baptized.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Spiritual, Grace

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• You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Important, Matter, Facts

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• We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Unique, Men, Thinking

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.114, Fig

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• Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven... How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy?

  J. C. Ryle

  Home, Angel, Heaven

  J. C. Ryle (2010). “Holiness (Abridged): Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.96, Moody Publishers

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• For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

  Leland Ryken

  Spiritual, Quests, Moral

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.301, Harper Collins

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• Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

  Charles Colson

  Giving, Heroism, Ordinary

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.135, Zondervan

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• Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Jesus, Self

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• See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Heart, World

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.531

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• The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Names, Ministry

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• 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

  Religious, Soul, Merit

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• Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

  John Owen

  Journey, Men, Thinking

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man can see and live. The broken and the contrite heart He will not despise. We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God passed by. We must take refuge from God in God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Jesus

  "The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life".

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• True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Abiding, Doe

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• Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Home, Temples

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• What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Positive, Bible, Christian

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• We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!

  Nicky Cruz

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17; Gal. 3:2, 5) and holiness (John 17:17) decline. Activity may continue, but life and power and fruitfulness fade away. Therefore, whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Ministry, May

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.75, B&H Publishing Group

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• Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

  Maya Angelou

  Party, Safety, Effort

  1976 Singin'and Swingin'and Getting Merry Like Christmas, ch.9.

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• We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.

  Jonathan Martin

  Strong, Needs, Tables

  Jonathan Martin (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.165, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Share, Found

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• All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Humanity, Holy

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• Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

  Gregory Palamas

  Death, God, Christian

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

  John Flavel

  Blood, Christ

  John Flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2015). “THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP”, p.80, Lulu.com

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