Quotes about Holiness

And on the seventh day God finished His work … and He rested … from all His work which He had done" (Genesis 2:2). Thus, work itself is something divine, something God Himself does. So

Sainthood does not mean sinlessness.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

The Holy Spirit has consecrated us as temples of God. We, therefore, must let the glory of God shine through us, and we must not pollute ourselves with sin.

Indeed, the holiest among us know they stand by God's grace and not by their own virtues. Yet they would nevertheless become too confident in their own courage and constancy if they weren't led to a more intimate knowledge of themselves by the testing of the cross.

Were we ordered to make a temple of wood and stone to the Spirit, inasmuch as such worship is due to God alone, it would be a clear proof of the Spirit's divinity; how much clearer a proof in that we are not to make a temple to him, but to be ourselves that temple.

The glory of God is the highest end, to which our sanctification is subordinate.

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God.

Since I am coming to that holy room,Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore,I shall be made thy music; as I comeI tune the instrument here at the door,And what I must do then, think here before.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.