Quotes About Holiness

Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world, and make that man holy and put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

When a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.

Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus, too, glorify Me.