Quotes About Holiness

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.