Quotes about Holiness

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us.

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.

St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint.

His purpose was not just to make us safe but to make us saints.