Quotes about Holiness
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.
— Mother Angelica
Teaching the Bible involves far more than simply giving out information about the Bible. Bible teaching is ministering to people, liberating them from their inadequate concepts of God, expanding their notion of what it means to live faithfully before God, helping them cast aside old self-defeating habits and replace them with habits of holiness.
— Leland Ryken
The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you
— Brother Lawrence
We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves
— Elisabeth Elliot
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
— St. Augustine
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
— Max Lucado
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
— Alan Hirsch
The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.
— Anne Lamott
When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our jewels, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?
— Aldous Huxley
Holiness, on the contrary, is the total denial of the separative self, in its creditable no less than its discreditable aspects, and the abandonment of the will to God.
— Aldous Huxley
Prayerful people become godly people, for prayerfulness with God cultivates godliness in all of life.
— Donald Whitney
From biblical times to our time, godly people have always been spiritually disciplined people.
— Donald Whitney