Quotes about Holiness
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
— St. Jerome
Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.
— John Wesley
At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.
— David Wilkerson
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
— CS Lewis
Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
— Ambrose of Milan
The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.
— Paul Washer
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
— Hippocrates
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
— AW Tozer
Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?
— Leonard Ravenhill
Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
— George Whitefield
A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.
— Leonard Ravenhill