Quotes about Holiness

Should I not partake of anything the world consumes? If so, how can I live and function in this world?

Those who truly believe will exhibit a changed nature and no longer produce the fruit of an evil one.

Now, according to the strength or weakness of his faith in his Savior, so is his joy and peace, so is his love for holiness, so are his desires to know Him more and to serve Him more single-mindedly in this present world. But

He loves me with love that passeth knowledge, and I will love him. His love stripped him of all for my sake; Lord, let my love strip me of all for thy sake. I am a son of love, an object of love, a monument of love; of free love, of distinguishing love, of peculiar love, and of love that passeth knowledge: and why should not I walk in love-in love to God, in love to man, in holy love, in love unfeigned?

holiness teaches him to inwardly condemn his sin and doing it in secret. It also teaches him to suppress sin in his family and to promote holiness in the world. He does so not by just talking about it, as a hypocrite or talkative person might do, but by practical application in faith and love to the power of the Word.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.

It is not that they looked in the ark and saw something that they should not have seen. That is not the point. The ark was a box. That is all it ever was. The point is that it was at the ark in the Holy of Holies that God met with His people. He is not meeting with them now. They have turned from Him. Their rebellion and blasphemy are revealed in their disobedience. Because of this, God brings judgment upon them.