Quotes About Holiness

wit and indelicacy being sometimes better literature-preservers than holiness.

That's when I have to ask him. "Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?" "What? Because I'm a priest?" He finishes the dregs of his coffee. "Sure. God knows what's important.

In der Region, in der alles, was gefunden wird, im Lichte der Ursache-Wirkungs-Beziehung dargestellt wird, kann selbst Gott seine Heiligkeit und Herrlichkeit und all die Geheimnis seiner Distanz verlieren.

One of the greatest gifts for my life as one who serves God is observing the Sabbath. Celebrating a holy day and living in God's rhythm for six days of work and one of rest is the best way I know to learn the sense of our call - the way in which God's Kingdom reclaims us, revitalizes us, and renews us so that it can reign through us. Before we can engage in the practice of our call, we need to be captured afresh by grace, carried by it, and cared for.

Why are we not more holy?" asked John Wesley, another regular faster, addressing his preachers. "Chiefly because we are enthusiasts, looking for the end without the means.

We won't be perfect on this side of heaven. But Jesus is perfect. Always. We are becoming more holy and true. Jesus already is. His name isn't "Becoming." It is "I Am." Perfection isn't the goal. Jesus is.

Religious interpretations invariably reduce complexity to uniformity while elevating matter-of-factness to holiness.

Every day is a good day, not only Good Friday. Every day is a holy day, not only Holy Thursday.Be holy and do good everyday.

Sacredness is spirituality.

Is there any purity like prayer?

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

The royal pursuit is reverence of God.

The Reverence of God is the greatest treasure.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

You are holy, great and mighty, the moon and the stars DECLARE who You are...I'm so unworthy, but still You love me, forever my heart will sing of how great You are!

Love God, Love people, and thoroughly hate sin. ? ? ?

Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow. Bless His holy name!

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.