Quotes About Holiness

10By God's will we have been purified and made holy once and for allf through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah!

The goal of the spiritual life is to become the most perfect worshippers of God that we can possibly be, in this life and throughout all eternity.

all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of GOD, could not efface a single sin.

But when we are faithful to keep ourselves in His holy presence, and set Him always before us, this not only hinders our offending Him and doing anything that may displease Him, at least wilfully, but it also begets in us a holy freedom, and, if I may so speak, a familiarity with God, wherewith we ask, and that successfully, the graces we stand in need of. In

Brother Lawrence called the practice of the presence of God the easiest and shortest way to attain Christian perfection and to be protected from sin.

If we only knew how much we need God's grace, we would never lose touch with Him. Believe me. Make a commitment never to deliberately stray from Him, to live the rest of your life in His holy presence. Don't do this in expectation of receiving heavenly comforts; simply do it out of love for Him.

Evangelical spirituality focuses, subjectively, on the "with-God" life in all of its lived dimensions. It concerns the manner by which we live in communion with Christ in response to the Spirit in pursuit of holiness resulting in service to others.

every person who walks uprightly, does the best that he can, overcomes the world, rises above carnality, and walks in paths of righteousness will have his acts and his deeds sealed and approved by the Holy Spirit.

Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the essence of repentance. True repentance is a denial that anything in us ever would or ever could satisfy God's holiness or compel his pardon. We humbly concede that we can offer him nothing for what he alone can give. Then we rest in his promise to forgive those who humbly seek him.

Grace does not preclude holiness, but makes it possible. Holiness springs from the fountain of grace.

Grace does not annul God's concern for holiness, nor should it ours.

We know our skills are insufficient for an activity with such vast consequences. We recognize that our hearts are too lacking in purity to lead others to holiness. Honest evaluation inevitably causes us to conclude that we do not have sufficient eloquence, wisdom, or character to be capable of turning others from spiritual death to eternal life.

We must remember that our justification (being okay with God) and applied sanctification (being a pure child of God) are never determined by what we do but, rather, by faith in what Christ has done. God expects personal works of holiness as a loving response to his grace, but not as a way of gaining it. If we had to earn grace at any time in our Christian lives, it would not be grace.

The inevitable consequence of obedience without delight is the erosion of holiness.

No truth calls louder for pastoral holiness than the link between a preacher's character and a sermon's reception. If

Thorolf took possession of land between Staf River and Thors River, and called it Thorsness. He held the mountain on that headland so sacred that he called it Helgafell and no one was allowed even to look at it unless he'd washed himself first. So holy was the mountain, no living creature there, man or beast, could be harmed until they left of their own accord. Thorolf and his kinsmen all believed that they would go into the mountain when they died.

Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

Jesus wants to make us holy at all costs. . .He offers you continual proof of this.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.