Quotes about Holiness

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.

Prayerful people become godly people, for prayerfulness with God cultivates godliness in all of life.

From biblical times to our time, godly people have always been spiritually disciplined people.

Godliness requires disciplined worship.

Sixth, the Spiritual Disciplines are means, not ends. The end—that is, the purpose of practicing the Disciplines—is godliness.

Worship empowers serving; serving expresses worship. Godliness requires a disciplined balance between the two.

You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.