Holiness Quotes - Page 9

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

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

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

See what an atmosphere of holiness is here the pure air of the Ganga what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a place like this!

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.

If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood, the very ground of God. If you can love non-being then nothing can destroy you, you have transcended time and space. Then you have become one with the total, and this is what holiness is - to become whole is to be holy.

The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.