Quotes About Holiness

A distinguishing taste of authentic Christians is their distaste for evil.

Some people in the world only saw in black and white. They were driven by fear. They had learned how to survive in their little corner of the world and they saw any change as a threat to their survival. But they still liked to think of themselves as good people. Good people didn't hate without a reason, so they grasped at any pretext, no matter how small, that gave them permission to hate. A line in a holy book. The color of a person's skin.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Wash you, make you clean.

God loveth the clean.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

God is always at war with sin

The holy will not be contained. We like to think we can capture, preserve, and cultivate it in buildings, liturgies, curricula, a holy land, people, language. All these, at best, are reminders that direct our attention to God.

No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.

No matter where life takes you...the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find goodness in it.

Purity" suggests a single, uncontaminated, element or quality. "Purity of heart," therefore, is an undeviating regard to God alone, who has become the center and focus of all one's thoughts, words and actions. Only by such purity of heart is the mind of man readied and prepared for the perfect concentration of mind, which is known as contemplation.

First, believe in this world - that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee

There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls.

The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes.

Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

A genuine Christian with a heart empty of all wickedness and filled with Christ's Love should be able to achieve any spiritual goals for the Glory of God.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.