Quotes about Holiness

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

A verse of Scripture I often use in the face of failure with my own sins is Proverbs 24:16: "For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity." The person who is disciplining himself toward holiness falls many times, but he doesn't quit. After each failure he gets up and continues the struggle.

Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.

It is, indeed, a unique occasion at which the distinguished word qadosh is used for the first time: in the Book of Genesis at the end of the story of creation. How extremely significant is the fact that it is applied to time: "And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy." There is no reference in the record of creation to any object in space that would be endowed with the quality of holiness.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.

Every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.

God is perfectly holy, then we can be confident that His actions toward us are always perfect and just.

Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

Then I told them, “You are holy to the LORD, and these articles are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.