Quotes About Holiness

Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

George Sheehan, the running guru, describes four roles: being a good animal (physical), a good craftsman (mental), a good friend (social), and a saint (spiritual).

More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest to our Creator, who, for all our murderous efforts, most likely despises the lot of us.

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.

Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.

Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.

God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just.

As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure.

For the Christian tradition, the heart's true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom about stability points us toward the true peace that is possible when our spirits are stilled and our feet are planted in a place we know to be holy ground.

Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. "Temple" means... that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the remainder of the land which is used either for agriculture or habitation... Similarly in divine worship a certain definite space of time is set aside from working hours and days... and like the space allotted to the temple, is not used, is withdrawn from all merely utilitarian ends.

If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.