Quotes About Holiness

He can go about his business, so completely satisfied to see and be part of the divine Order of Things that he will never even be tempted. When all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness, for drearier forms of pleasure?

Holiness, on the contrary, is the total denial of the separative self, in its creditable no less than its discreditable aspects, and the abandonment of the will to God.

Stand unshod upon it for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator," Alan Paton wrote. "Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed."4

You can follow the religions where God is small, or you can follow the religions where God is all.

meditaba en Hebreos 12:29: «Porque nuestro Dios es un fuego que todo lo consume».

Es crucial, crucial, entender que no es nuestra búsqueda de la santidad lo que nos habilita para ver al Señor. Más bien, el Señor mismo es el que nos habilita para ver al Señor, no las cosas buenas que hacemos.

Prayerful people become godly people, for prayerfulness with God cultivates godliness in all of life.

From biblical times to our time, godly people have always been spiritually disciplined people.

Godliness requires disciplined worship.

Sixth, the Spiritual Disciplines are means, not ends. The end—that is, the purpose of practicing the Disciplines—is godliness.

Si has dejado de vivir para ti mismo y para el pecado, y has confiado en Jesucristo y Su obra para justificarte delante de Dios, entonces el Señor te ha dado el Espíritu Santo.

You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

For to Ade,...the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

I could not possibly love one woman, having known the holiness of all women.

Justificación por la fe y santificación por medio de la lucha

boys must be instructed on how to grow up into glory and how to fulfill their responsibility to be representative, responsible, and holy.

Coming to worship the Lord in the "beauty of holiness" somehow gets translated into the "warmth of niceness." Almost entirely gone is the experience of being run through, pierced by the numinous.

When we gather in family worship, we are not setting aside God's portion of the day, but are reminding the entire family that the entire day is His.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.