Quotes about Holiness

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"?

Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.

There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness.

The pastoral vocation in America is embarrassingly banal. It is banal because it is pursued under the canons of job efficiency and career management. It is banal because it is reduced to the dimensions of a job description. It is banal because it is an idol — a call from God exchanged for an offer by the devil for work that can be measured and manipulated at the convenience of the worker. Holiness is not banal. Holiness is blazing…

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

Being full of Holy Spirit is not evidenced in tongues; it is evidenced by being full.

Holiness is more powerful than sin; it's the purity of Christ in you. Highway

Holiness in character is the manifestation of the power of God on the nature of man. Holiness affects the human body through healing. Holiness demands expression, and that expression is the manifestation of power

O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.

Are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. A real work is to be wrought in us and upon us. Besetting sins are to be conquered; evil habits are to be overcome; wrong dispositions and feelings are to be rooted out, and holy tempers and emotions are to be begotten.

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.