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Quotes About Holiness

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
~ Charles Simeon
I am basically a religious man.
~ Cyril Cusack
I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
~ E. M. Forster
Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.
~ Rene Dubos
Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
~ Izaak Walton
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Holiness exalts people and keeps them on high
~ Sunday Adelaja
We have to dedicate ourselves to a holy way of life, to justice, honesty and loyalty
~ Sunday Adelaja
We have to make holiness our creed
~ Sunday Adelaja
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
~ Reginald Heber
Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.
~ Charles Spurgeon
For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.
~ Christopher West
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
~ St. Jerome
James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat meat.
~ Hegesippus
There is the music of Heaven in all things.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
~ Jonathan Edwards
There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
~ R. C. Sproul
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
~ J. C. Ryle
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
~ Martin Chemnitz
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!
~ Joseph Hall
A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.
~ Marty Rubin
If the root is holy, the branches shall be holy.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita