Quotes About Holiness

The path of prayer is way of purity.

The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.

Wherever the Spirit of the Lord is at work, one of the discernible evidences of His presence is changed personalities. Men can and do change. Peter and Paul did; so can you. Sanctification (personality change toward holiness) is the work of the Spirit through His Word.

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to live an abundant life meant to be controlled by the Holy Spirit.

As it relates to morality, we typically compare ourselves to others. Stand yourself up next to Hitler, a terrorist, or some sex offender, and all of a sudden, you're a saint by comparison. But when matched up beside God's pristine holiness and standards, you and I come up very short.

The women of the Band were learning that if the Lord of Glory took a towel and knelt on the floor to wash the dusty feet of His disciples, then no work, even the relentless and often messy routine of caring for squalling babies, is demeaning. To offer it up to the Lord of Glory transforms it into a holy task.

She stood, as it were, with her face to God and her back to the people, waiting to receive His word for the 'chose people.' She had a vision of holy living. She would not deviate from that no matter how well-established, rational, and practical the ways of older missions seemed to be.

God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.

Suffering creates the possibility of growth in, holiness, but only to those who, by letting all else go, are open to the training—not by arguing with the Lord about what they did or did not do to deserve punishment, but by praying, "Lord, show me what You have for me in this.

It is nothing short of a transformed vision of reality that is able to see Christ as more real than the storm, love more real than hatred, meakness more real than pride, long-suffering more real than annoyance, holiness more real than sin. - Discipline

There is an active practice of holiness as we carry out, for the glory of God, the ordinary duties of each day, faithfully fulfilling the responsibilities given us. The passive practice consists in living acceptance of the unexpected, be it welcome or unwelcome, remembering that we have a wise and sovereign Lord who works in mysterious ways and is never taken by surprise.

Deus nunca nos decepcionará. Ele nos ama e tem apenas um propósito para nós: a santidade, que no reino dele equivale à alegria.

Holiness presupposes constant growth through an ongoing relationship with the One who has called us to be holy.

The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, Do you also want to leave me? If we answer as PEter did, Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life, our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.

God's supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pictures of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone?

I believe in a magnificent God.

What kind of God do you believe in?' my answer is easy: 'I believe in a magnificent God.

Holy gets angry. So does this mean we need to buy ropes and start making whips? No. But perhaps we need to stop hiding safely behind hashtag campaigns and instead show up and speak out.

Christian spirituality is not a life project for becoming a better person." —EUGENE PETERSON