Quotes About Holiness

as scripture says, "God is too pure to behold iniquity." Certainly God wouldn't tolerate it today and then heal you of it tomorrow. That would make of God a human being, and not even a very nice one.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

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.

Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

He had robbed the body of its taint, the world's taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness

He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places. An increasingly pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. South

pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly.

But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.And, behold, I come quickly.

And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee.

Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it… and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah.