Quotes about Holiness

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.

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.