Quotes about Holiness

The meaning of life is to become a saint.

nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer.

The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real.

we catch the good infection of Godliness by contact.

The most real human persons are saints. They are what we are all designed to be.

It is God's omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

William Temple, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury during the difficult days of World War II. He wrote, "To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God."

The divine order then is first pardon, then holiness; first peace with God, and then conformity to the image of that God with whom we have been brought to be at peace.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Every act of man would from the very first have to be a moral act, an act of choice for or against God. Hence man would even in every act of knowledge manifest true righteousness and true holiness.

Godliness with contentment is rare.

And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different you will be.