Quotes about Holiness
If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
- John Calvin
If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
- DA Carson
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
- John of the Cross
Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
- Watchman Nee
The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
- RC Sproul
There are no small sins against a great God.
- JI Packer
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
- AW Pink
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
- Oswald Chambers
God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
- JI Packer
As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.
- Matt Redman
The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
- RC Sproul