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Quotes About Holiness

Os puritanos sabiam que a Escritura é a regra inalterada da santidade, e eles nunca se permitiram esquecer disso.
~ Leland Ryken
Teaching the Bible involves far more than simply giving out information about the Bible. Bible teaching is ministering to people, liberating them from their inadequate concepts of God, expanding their notion of what it means to live faithfully before God, helping them cast aside old self-defeating habits and replace them with habits of holiness.
~ Leland Ryken
The grand style of the Old Testament shows forth the greatness not of God, but of man, of what man once was. The holy God no less than the holy man are creatures of the human will to power. So that is a strange vindication of God, and we must read much deeper before we can understand it.
~ Leo Strauss
In emphasizing God's love over his holiness--his set-apartness as a sovereign, omniscient authority--we end up believing that his central concern is our individual happiness.
~ Leslie Leyland Fields
God wants us to focus on becoming like Christ, on shaping our character into His image.
~ Linda Dillow
What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.
~ Sai Baba
Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.
~ Francis of Assisi
Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.
~ Lawrence Kushner
The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you
~ Brother Lawrence
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves
~ Elisabeth Elliot
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
~ Saint Augustine
Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.
~ Ann M. Dibb
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
~ Alan Hirsch
Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.
~ James E. Talmage
Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.
~ Joyce Meyer
It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.
~ Frederick Lenz
Kundalini Yoga will dawn on you the secret of how to be Healthy, Happy and Holy.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
~ Anne Lamott
Why is it "in" to be a christian, but "out" to live a holy life?
~ Alin Sav
A holy life is not a life empty of sin, but a life full of God's presence.
~ Alin Sav
My eye sees sacred things.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering.
~ Sunday Adelaja
When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our jewels, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?
~ Aldous Huxley