Quotes About Holiness

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.

Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

God's supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

Lent is not just a period of repentance, it is an opportunity for repentance, a period that reminds us of our daily duties towards holiness as a global family.

You must spend more time thinking about the divine.

to become a saint one had to suffer much, seek out always the most perfect thing to do, and forget self.

Edward had lived 'a celibate life'; indeed, 'he preserved with holy chastity the dignity of his consecration, and lived his whole life dedicated in true innocence'.

We seldom notice how each day is a holy place Where the eucharist of the ordinary happens, Transforming our broken fragments Into an eternal continuity that keeps us.

To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul.

The deepest things that you need are not elsewhere. They are here and now in that circle of your own soul. Real friendship and holiness enable a person to frequently visit the hearth of his solitude;

Only holiness will call people to listen now. And the work of holiness is not about perfection or niceness; it is about belonging, that sense of being in the Presence and through the quality of that belonging, the mild magnetic of implicating others in the Presence. This is not about forging a relationship with a distant God but about the realization that we are already within God.

Against all attempts at programs and methods, the great art of holiness is to let oneself be.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.