Quotes About Holiness

In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.

Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

In every good man a God doth dwell.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

No man of God does something against the Lord