Quotes About Holiness

For the Christian one dislocating, self-impoverishing hour spent with a child living in a broken-down dump is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the enfeebled good intentions, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of those Christians who are so busy cultivating their own holiness that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the slum.

There is a myth flourishing in the church today that has caused incalculable harm: once converted, fully converted. In other words, once I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, an irreversible, sinless future beckons. Discipleship will be an untarnished success story; life will be an unbroken upward spiral toward holiness.

every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.

Do Christians sin? Yes, absolutely. But can Christians live in a state of sin without discipline and without being brought back in obedience to their Father? Absolutely not.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

When we live holy we will glorify self but when we glorify God we will live holy

One of the conditions necessary for constant success and prosperity is holiness

The holiness of God makes Him the possessor of all earthly wealth, which belongs to Him forever

Never look at how others who live dishonestly become rich, look at God and His holiness

God's constant wealth is accessible to us, if we cultivate His holiness in our lives

We should always live in holiness and reveal the holiness of God to the world

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

We must live a holy life if we want to pray.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.

Holiness is not some nebulous thing. It's a series of right choices. You needn't wait for some holy cloud to form around you. You'll be holy when you choose not to sin. You're already free from the power of sexual immorality; you are not yet free from the habit of sexual immorality, until you choose to be—until you say, "That's enough! I'm choosing to live purely!

As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

In cultures that recognize the importance of this capacity, this group of people are trained to use their enhanced perceptual capacities for the benefit of the group. there would then be many more holy people among us

Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get out of our self-made cave and walk in the glorious light of God's holiness.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

In order to understand great grace, you have to understand your great need. In order to understand God's lack of anger, you have to understand how much you deserve the anger of a holy God. In order to understand great mercy, you have to know that you need it. As

I want to learn everything I can from Him, be under His lordship, submit to all His ways, abide with Him at all times and give Him glory from every part of my life.