Quotes About Holiness

for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

walk not according to the flesh but according to the spirit....

God made us without ourselves," to repeat the much-quoted saying of Saint Augustine, "but He cannot sanctify us without ourselves.

Holiness is not a supplement to justification but the actualization of justification,

To be Jewish was, and is, to be different. This is the root meaning of purity or, in biblical language, holiness - to be set apart for God's purposes. To be holy is to be distinctive; the term `holy,' when applied to people, is shorthand for `peculiar by virtue of being obedient to God's commandments.' Holiness is the way of life that marks out the covenant people, the expression of the fact that this people is called, or elected, by God.

By salvation I mean, not barely (according to the vulgar notion) deliverance from hell, or going to heaven, but a present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health, its original purity; a recovery of the divine nature; the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness, in justice, mercy, and truth.29

If Christians were afraid of worldliness as much as they are of holiness, they would set the world on fire for Christ. ANONYMOUS

the world can fascinate us so much as being near to God.… You cannot buy or wear or sell except that which is pleasing to the Lord. Jesus becomes Lord over your wants and desires. You love that which God loves and hate that which God hates…. If you can be fascinated

We are accepted because of Jesus, and that's the ground of our security. Now it is our holy privilege to walk worthy of that high calling, drawing near to God in confidence, "with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water" (Heb. 10:22).

There is no sin nature in there. There is nothing of the old creation that lives inside of your new creation spirit. There is no sin or unrighteousness. Your spirit has received full perfection! Full holiness! God is not trying to give you anything else—He has already given you fullness! . . . All of the fullness of God lives inside of you!54

For women mystics, contemplative life is not so much a matter of transcending the illusions of mundane existence or attaining states of perfect equanimity as it is about becoming as fully present as possible to the realities of the human experience. In showing up for what is, no matter how pedestrian or tedious, how aggravating or shameful, the what is begins to reveal itself as imbued with holiness. How do we make space in our lives for this kind of sacred seeing?

YOU SHALL not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a blemish or any defect whatsoever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Holiness is doing Godís will with a smile.

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

Holiness is the suspended animation of the mind, for awakening in a better place.

The mind is like a lowrider, not all the wheels of thinking move normally with the effect of spinning wheels of the speed of thinking. Thinking is like a machine, bouncing forward. With neon illuminated holiness.

The mind is like a lowrider, not all the wheels of thinking move normally with the effect of spinning wheels, karmic, deja vu rumination of thought, moving in one direction, then in another. Thinking is like a machine, bouncing forward. With neon illuminated holiness.

All spirits or souls are holy. Self-realization is releasing that holiness that has not been explored. To realize the truth that was already there, but you were just too blind to see it.

Despite having all the names of the Devil in the scriptures, they are still considered holy.

You are not a god, but part of the Most High.

Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart" (Ps. 24:3–4). We need to be pure before God by turning from our sinful ways, receiving forgiveness through Christ, and walking in the Spirit. (See Romans 8:3–4.)

you are integrated, then what you say, what you believe, what you do, and how you respond are the same. If you tell God you believe Him, but then act in the opposite way when you are on your job, taking care of your children, or with your friends, then you are not integrated, pure, holy. You are double-minded. "That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord" (James 1:7).

Holiness isn't some mystical, nebulous, weird, smoky, cloudy presence. It's very practical and real. Holiness means "one"—not the number one, but one in the sense of "complete." Holiness denotes the concept of being integrated. Integrated comes from the same word as integrity. God has integrity because what He says, what He does, and who He is are the same. That's exactly what holiness

Yet James said that if we doubt, we are being double-minded. That means that we don't have integrity—we're not holy. Since God is holy, we also have to be holy if we want to receive answers to our prayers.