Quotes About Holiness

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.

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

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to...the Word of God.

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

Then you will not be ashamed to tell men and demons that you are sanctified, and are living a pure and holy life free from sin, a life that gives you power over the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise.

And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

He, who the sword of heaven will bearShould be as holy as severe.

Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

When you put it together, it looks like this: Our natural condition is weak and fallen and our temptations are numerous; God is infinitely holy, yet He offers forgiveness, grace and enabling power to those who get honest with Him and are willing to repent.

If you touch these dead ones, if you have intercourse with the world, if you build up a friendship with it, and if you have your living among it, you are touching dead bodies. If you touch dead bodies, you will surely be infected and defiled with impurities.

1 Jn. 1:5 Y éste es el mensaje que hemos oído de Él, y os anunciamos: Dios es luz, y en Él no hay ningunas tinieblas.