Quotes about Holiness

The question for each of us is one of housekeeping. Are there attitudes or actions we have allowed to take root in our life that are keeping us from the pursuit of holiness?

Asceticism was not necessary for holiness.

Preferring the comforting messages of certain attributes of God, our lives have become a trifling with His holiness. We desperately need to regain this view of the highness and the holiness of God. His holiness is the ultimate clarity.

Repentance. Not a onetime event for the forgiveness of sin and gift of eternal life but a lifetime pattern of humility before a holy God.

We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.

I want nothing to be off-limits to God. He can have free access to all that I am, everywhere I go, all the time.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee."

God is holy, and to see His holiness means to do it His way.

God's holiness … puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.

Suffering related to circumstances beyond my control, suffering related to consequences of my besetting sin, and suffering caused by others who refused to see their own sin. In all these instances, the Lord has been at work, refining my focus upon personal holiness, amplifying my ministry through very humbling experiences, and reminding me repeatedly to extend grace not just to the gracious but to those who lack a grace I took too long to come to myself.

You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man,

When God is recognized for the infinitely holy being that He is, you don't stand around questioning His decisions.