Quotes About Holiness

We are people, and my plea is Let me be a someone, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Lord... We are people, and my plea is Let me be a someone, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Could it be that he, Stephen Dedalus, had done those things? His conscience sighed in answer. Yes, he had done them, secretly, filthily, time after time, and, hardened in sinful impenitence, he had dared to wear the mask of holinesss before the tabernacle itself while his soul within was a living mass of corruption.

God and the Blessed Virgin were too far from him: God was too great and stern and the Blessed Virgin too pure and holy.

Hell wasn't made for people; God doesn't want anyone to go there. But he is utter goodness—absolute holiness—and evil cannot be in his presence. Without

Love and light are the essential fruits of a Christlike life.

But instead of being con-formed to the world, Christians are to be changed from within to be increasingly like Jesus Christ.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way.

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love

Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.

All, therefore, were glorified and magnified, not through themselves or their own works or the righteous actions which they did, but through his will. And so we, having been called through his will in Christ Jesus, are not justified through ourselves or through our wisdom or understanding or piety or works, which we have done in holiness of heart, but through faith, by which the almighty God has justified all who have existed from the beginning, to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Faith doesn't transport us to paradise immediately because we still struggle with sin. "Thus a Christian man is righteous and a sinner at the same time, holy and profane, an enemy of God and a child of God.

The famous verses in Romans 12:1–2 warn us against being conformed to this world. How can we resist the pressures of this world? By being transformed by the renewal of our minds!

Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.

Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!

The God whom we worship is holy, the work we are employed in is holy, the place we hope to arrive at is holy; all this calls for holiness.

The holiness of the saints will not excuse them from sufferings.