Quotes About Holiness

The holy person111 is completely holy, including the person's body. The holy person who takes up bread consecrates it, and does the same with the cup or anything else the person takes up and consecrates.112 So how would the person not consecrate the body also?

The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind's creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness — yea, the divine nature — appear in man and the universe never to disappear. -Mary Baker Eddy (SH 509:24)

The saints thus receive qualities that are forbidden to man, and these qualities are owed precisely to the fact that man is capable of loving and the ultimate form of love is the Holiness.

By loving, the man acts on himself by acting on the image of his own love with Holiness and then on the Destiny which is the image of the Love of this world.

Holiness is neither that passionate love of the beginning, nor the tormenting anxiety of the long waits and of the moonlight walks, but is that superior form of friendship that is given this time a true eternal look, of comprehension, of acceptance of the self sacrifice for friendship, understanding and complementarity.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

The path of the human happiness consists of the supreme attributes of Love, which are Holiness, Faith and Religion. It requires a great deal of attention though so that they are not distorted again through all sorts of cunning intervention that will try to institutionalize them again and with it proclaim a new Original Sin!

This is why the faith of the peoples is and becomes a complementary part of it, and the ultimate argument for the existence of religion within man as long as there will be human beings is that, as long as he will exist, he will love, because he is love, and the ultimate form of love known to man is precisely holiness, whose first characteristic is faith.

All this happens because man is love and is there is a great love between two souls, it never dies but transforms itself in holiness, the ultimate stage of Love we can identify.

Holiness, Faith and Religion can never be institutionalized because they are the individual property of every man, they are a part of each mans Sacred Self, and their socialization can be done only by accepting the individuality of each such Sacred Self. And such an acceptance of the individuality does not allow in any circumstance their institutionalization.

Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through death, expecting you?

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union the sexual from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

Encircling all this was a ring of flame, the holiness of God, my Mother, blazing everywhere. Our abbot and prior preached that God was above all things, and yet my vision told me that God was in all things, alive inside every stone and leaf. A white cloud, filled with light, opened and a voice began to sing. I am the breeze that nurtures everything green and growing, that urges the blossoms to flourish, the fruits to ripen. I am the dew that makes the grasses laugh with the joy of life.

La Iglesia es santa, pero, sin duda, sus miembros son muy pecadores.

From the time of his passing, there was a movement to promote Paul's canonization. While criticized in some quarters for his response to the crises after the council and vilified by dissenting theologians for Humanæ Vitæ, Paul was nevertheless loved and respected by those who knew him for his intellect, his gentle courtesy, his humility, and above all, his personal holiness.

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

Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not of works, lest any man should boast. These things are not brought to pass by any thing done by us, therefore all boasting is shut out. All is the free gift of God, and the effect of being quickened by his power. It was his purpose, to which he prepared us, by blessing us with the knowledge of his will, and his Holy Spirit producing such a change in us, that we should glorify God by our good conversation, and perseverance in holiness.

A Christian makes his body a sacrifice to God, though he does not give it to be burned.

All Christians must be saints; and, if they come not under that character on earth, they will never be saints in glory.

God's servants must think nothing below them but sin.

Whatever is unclean should be to us an abomination; touch not the unclean thing.

It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, particularly to make sport with the word and ordinances of God, or to treat them with lightness

The more dead we are to the delights of sense the better prepared we are for the pleasures of heaven.

All that minister about holy things must have an eye to God's command as their rule and warrant;