Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit Of Holiness Quotes
We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.
Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.~Andrew Bonar~
We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.
The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.
