Quotes about Holiness

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

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.

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.

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

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

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

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?