Quotes About Holiness

God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.

What sets God's people apart from everyone else is not our accoutrements or our language. It won't be our music, our programs, or our bumper stickers. It will be the presence of the Lord . . . His hand being upon us.

It is not the fear of losing God's favor that takes us to the depth of fellowship with him and transforms our lives with his holiness. It is our certainty of knowing his unrelenting love for us, even in the midst of our weakness and failure, that leads us to the fullness of his life.

Mother Teresa was once asked by a journalist why she does what she does, that is, how she is able to take the dying poor from the streets of Calcutta, nurse and love them. Her response reflected her deep self-knowledge: "I realized a long time ago that I had a Hitler within me."2 This realization became the basis of her self-transcendence and of her unique holiness.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

he still had carnality in his heart. As he lay there, he repeatedly quoted Hebrews 12:14, "Follow . . . holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." He grieved that he had won so few to the Lord.

This is God's holiness and justice revealed in Jesus Christ: that God justifies, accepts, and loves sinners despite their unworthiness.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose, and all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.' -William Temple, archbishop of Canterbury (1881-1944)

His Holiness carried the burden of the whole Church on his shoulders - answered Albanese - but in his death he was as light as a feather.

Many days and years and people had passed before she understood that the details themselves were the still and sacred things, that there was nothing else, that the curtain of daily life itself was holy, that behind it was only a void.

Worship Him in love and obedience, with your whole life.

Day and night they never stop saying: "'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,' who was, and is, and is to come." Revelation 4:8, NIV

You and I must teach those we mentor that our lives are holy before God and that developing a lifestyle of worship is critical to maintaining the purity of our influence.

Bad intentions toward others. Pretending to be someone you're not. Coveting what others have. Gossip, slander, and harsh criticism. Who could Peter be talking to? He must be referring to those who have never experienced the love of God. Sadly, no. He is calling out his brothers and sisters in Christ. They know God and have tasted His goodness. Speaking to and through Peter, God is again reminding us: "I am holy; you be holy.

The question for each of us is one of housekeeping. Are there attitudes or actions we have allowed to take root in our life that are keeping us from the pursuit of holiness?

when, for example, he met Martin Luther King, Jr., he was startled to discover a very different kind of Christianity. "I knew," he says, "I was in the presence of a holy person. Not just his good work but his very being was a source of great inspiration for me. And others, less well known, have made me feel that Lord Jesus is still here with us" (Nhat Hanh, 1995, pp. 5, 6). Through

Es el cuidadoso cultivo de una manera de vivir centrada en Dios, semejante a Cristo, dirigida por el carácter y el sentido común.

The very measure of God's power in a believer's life is dependent on how much of his life is ordered by the Holy Ghost.

As the Holy Spirit prays for us, He purges us on three levels: spirit, soul, and body.

Yet I am content. For I have served that dream which I elected to be serving. It may be that no man is royal, and that no god is divine, and that our mothers and our wives have not any part in holiness. Oh, yes, it very well may be that I have lost honor and applause, and that I take destruction, through following after a dream which has in it no truth. Yet my dream was noble; and its nobility contents me.

I felt in holy vibration to things around me

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God. — Frederick Buechner

Asceticism was not necessary for holiness.

As Michael pondered how shallow he had been, he was struck by another thought. It wasn't simply that he hadn't gone deep enough. It was rather that he had grown accustomed to wading in pools that had no depth to begin with. A turn toward holiness would be a turn toward a different life altogether - to a life where different things mattered than had mattered in the past. Did he desire such a life? He knew that of all the questions, this was the most important.