Quotes about Holiness

Do we seek happiness because we're sinners or because we're human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness?

I'm not always happy, any more than I'm always holy. But by God's grace, I'm happier in Christ now than I've ever been.

We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.

Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717]

Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness." —D. A. Carson

The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.

An unholy world will never be won to Christ by an unholy church.

Augustine was right: "It is the decided opinion of all who use their brains that all men desire to be happy. . . . The happy life which all men desire cannot be reached by any who does not cleave with a pure and holy love to that one supreme good, the unchangeable God.

The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called." —Horatius Bonar

Do we seek happiness because we're sinners or because we're human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness? Much

Holiness is pleasing to God, beneficial to men, and essential to the promotion of our own happiness

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.