Quotes About Holiness

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

Our Lord did not come to this planet, live a perfect life, and become a worthy atonement for the sins of the world so that those who become His children can merely be well adjusted, live morally upright lives, and enjoy personal happiness and success. He died to redeem us from the penalty and power of a sinful heart that keeps us from being useful servants of the living God.

We are a heathen company, more devoted to the customs and the Holy days than to the Holiness itself. We find more pleasure in the song and dance of God than in the piety.

Dios nos llama amorosamente a la obediencia. Él nunca se da por vencido. El hecho de su santidad no puede verse comprometido. Cuando lo desobedecemos, nos lastimamos a nosotros mismos y rompemos la comunicación con él. Solo cuando esta se restaura podemos concretar sus bendiciones en nuestros esfuerzos. 3.

Whatever God approves of comes first. Whatever grieves him has to go.

It must be important to God, for he tells us that "without holiness no one will see the Lord" (Heb. 12:14). Holiness is not a list of dos and don'ts. Rather, it is Christlikeness.

Every moment is a holy moment if we are present in it. Peace and stillness, love and wisdom, joy and creativity are the fruits of the present.