Quotes About Holiness

In the fasting for personal sanctity, we must also include the positive aspect of consecration to God.

Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. —Galatians 5:25

And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven's Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. —Hebrews 10:19

How can a young person stay pure? By obeying your word. —Psalm 119:9

In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy. —1 Timothy 2:8

Don't you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? —1 Corinthians 3:16

Since you are a temple of God, you should love like one too. — Mark Littleton

Let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God. —2 Corinthians 7:1

add love to holiness, the combination is often unbeatable. — Don Richards —

Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. —Colossians 3:12

The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

I think 'Jesus' is the most offensive word in anyone's life. When we mention Jesus, He is the only one who says 'I am God. I am holy. I am the only way to a truthful life.' No one - not Mohammad, not Buddha, not anyone says that they were holy, not anyone says that they were God, not anyone says that they faced the devil face to face and won.

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

We must learn to cherish all the moments of our lives and to call them holy.

Jesus' example of servant leadership sets him apart from so many historical religious leaders. He was not a God who lorded it over his followers and demanded they follow him or coerced their obedience through authoritarianism and fear. Instead, he called them to the excellence of holiness and yet lovingly served them in order to win their hearts and show them the means of reaching others' hearts as well.

We should never expect the world to behave according to our morality, our standards of holiness, or our wisdom. Jesus would still call us to "owe them our love" to fulfill the law.