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Quotes About Holiness

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
~ Aeschylus
If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.
~ Arno C. Gaebelein
The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !
~ William Blake
Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!
~ William Gurnall
Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.
~ Matthew Henry
Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.
~ Paul David Tripp
The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.
~ Philip Neri
All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.
~ Rose Philippine Duchesne
Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.
~ Russell M. Nelson
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
~ Florence Nightingale
God is good, and He cannot be anything else.
~ Joyce Meyer
Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
~ Ambrose
True beauty is to behold and reflect the beauty of God.
~ Carolyn Mahaney
All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure
~ Jerry Bridges
Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God
~ Jerry Bridges
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
~ Jerry Bridges
God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
~ Jim Elliot
We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.
~ Joan D. Chittister