Quotes about Holiness
This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not.
— John Eldredge
To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.
— John Henry Newman
If you ask me what you are to do in order to be perfect, I say, first—Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising; give your first thoughts to God; make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament; say the Angelus devoutly; eat and drink to God's glory; say the Rosary well; be recollected; keep out bad thoughts; make your evening meditation well; examine yourself daily; go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.
— John Henry Newman
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
— John Calvin
Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.
— Charles Spurgeon
True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.
— RC Sproul
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
— CS Lewis
We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
— JC Ryle
Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.
— Paul Tillich
God's supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.
— Elizabeth George
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
— John Owen
Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.
— John Owen