Holiness Quotes

One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.

Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.

The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

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

God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

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.

All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

The Lord loves holiness and transparency, and I think that if we are to worship Him properly and lead others to do the same, our day to day lives have to reflect that.

The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption

A holy spirit lives within you.

So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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