Holiness Quotes - Page 7

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.

Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.

Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.

Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17; Gal. 3:2, 5) and holiness (John 17:17) decline. Activity may continue, but life and power and fruitfulness fade away. Therefore, whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.