Quotes About Holiness

It is the story of all life that is holy and is good to tell, and of us two-leggeds sharing in it with the four-leggeds and the wings of the air and all green things; for these are children of one mother and their father is one Spirit.

The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.

A worthy man is not always a holy man.

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

Sanctification is conformity to the image and the example of Christ. The more the believer is growing like Jesus, the more he is growing in holiness.

Faith desires to let God be God. Sin has framed God, whether by the ultimate insults that he, the creator of all things, does not exist, or that he, the white-hot holy One, is responsible for the evil and suffering that humans have introduced into his good creation.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

Never sympathize with the thing that is stabbing God all the time. God has to hurt the thing that must go.

We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself (see Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you—and His experiments always succeed. The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

May we learn to intercede so whole-heartedly that Jesus Christ will be abundantly satisfied with us as intercessors.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the nature that controlled Him will control us.

These three things always work together— moral intelligence, the spontaneous originality of the Holy Spirit, and the setting of a life lived in communion with God.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

The secret of a holy life is not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

But the most impossible thing for you is to be so closely identified with the Lord that there is literally nothing of your old life remaining.

it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy.'" 1 Peter 1:16     We must continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness.

If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He does not ask you to put it right; He asks you to accept the light, and He will put it right.

To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.

Am I prepared for His coming? Jesus cannot come and do His work in me as long as there is anything blocking the way, whether it is something good or bad. When He comes to me, am I prepared for Him to drag every wrong thing I have ever done into the light?

Thank God that He does give us difficult things to do! His salvation is a joyous thing, but it is also something that requires bravery, courage, and holiness. It tests us for all we are worth.

The Sermon on the Mount is not an ideal, it is a statement of what will happen in me when Jesus Christ has altered my disposition and put in a disposition like His own. Jesus Christ is the only One Who can fulfil the Sermon on the Mount.