Quotes About Holiness

Brother Lawrence, known for his intimacy with God, wrote, "The foundation of spiritual life, for me, has been a high image of God and a high esteem of God."2

Marriage, we learn, is supposed to be a model of Christ's love for the church. It is to be based not upon lust, but upon honor and holiness (Ephesians 5).

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

My grandmother told me, "Words are holy. Treat them with respect. There's power there.

God is more interested in making you holy than popular. He is more interested in developing your character than making your life easy.

Yit-gadal v'yit-kadash sh'may raba B'alma dee-v'ra che-ru-tay Ve'yam-lich mal-chutay b'chai-yay-chon uv'yo-may-chon Uv-cha-yay d'chol beit Yisrael Ba-agala u-vitze-man ka-riv, ve'imru Amen. Y'hay sh'may raba me'varach Le-alam uleh-almay alma-ya . . .

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

There is no such thing as a continuously carnal Christian.

The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy. Actually

God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

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. —WILLIAM TEMPLE

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. —WILLIAM TEMPLE To

Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.

It seemed to be going well. You see, a Qliphoth can only possess an imperfect and impure body, one that's sinned. Of course, that describes all humans except maybe for the saints. When I eat a possessed person's sins, their body returns to a pure and holy state. With nowhere left to hide, the Qliphoth is ejected like someone spitting out a watermelon seed.

But there is a danger that we might begin to think of the encounter with God as if it were something radically distinct from our ordinary activities. In fact, we Catholics believe that in Jesus Christ, God rendered the whole of human existence holy. Because of Jesus we should expect to find the sacred not merely juxtaposed to our ordinary lives on a separate, supernatural plane, but in the midst of our ordinary human activities.

In the small seeds of plants lie hidden both bulk and branches, bud and fruit. In a few principles lie hidden all comfortable conclusions of holy truth. All these glorious fireworks of zeal and holiness in the saints had their beginning from a few sparks.

Oh, but is it possible', thinks the misgiving heart, `that so holy a God should accept such a prayer?' Yes, he will accept that which is his own, and pardon that which is ours.