Quotes About Holiness

I beseech you therefore, brethren… that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:But the seventh day… thou shalt not do any work.

Make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

One that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Introibo ad altare Dei [I will go in to the altar of God].

Lord Our God Your Grace is a purifying fire.

In other words, man's imagination, when it is not corrupt, yearns for the holy—to behold its beauty from a distance, to be possessed by it. All the greatest art of the past, pagan and Christian, testifies to this desire. It

The blood of Christ has changed our standing before the sight of God. Our lives should demonstrate this glorious change before the sight of men.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

We should be living a life of purity.

In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.

Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.

You must obey the Lord. Whatever He says, you must do. God gave us the Law to protect us, to teach us how to live righteously before Him. The battle belongs to the Lord. We are to be holy as He is holy!

Simply because holiness is the product of grace, and God gives grace only to the humble.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

Holiness has replaced love in your religion!

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Before setting foot in the Holy of the Holies you must take off your shoes, yet not only your shoes, but everything; you must take off your traveling-garment and lay down your luggage; and under that you must shed your nakedness and everything that is under the nakedness and everything that hides beneath that, and then the core and the core of the core, then the remainder and then the residue and then even the Holy of the Holies and let yourself be absorbed by it; neither can resist the other.