Quotes About Holiness

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.

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

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.

God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

Worship is about encounter-coming into God's presence

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

This whole world is full of God!

There are no small sins against a great God

A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.