The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We will never achieve holiness by what we do or don't do. Our only hope is to claim the holiness that Jesus… — Alisa Hope Wagner Copy Share Image
The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it. — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
“The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore,… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Amid the holy and celestial, humility's what's 'cool' under pressure. Humility stops being humble when it realizes itself humble, and cool stops… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
“I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“Jesus calls us to holiness and justice. Holiness involves dealing with the spark, the poisoned well, the root in our own hearts.… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most men seem to live for themselves, without much or any regard for thy glory, or for the good of others; They… — Arthur Bennett Copy Share Image
But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“The one foolproof test of our holiness will be the humility we demonstrate before God and men. Humility is the bloom and… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“Whatever they [antinomians] say of the law, though they cast contempt and disgrace upon it, and upon those who preach it, yet… — Samuel Bolton Copy Share Image
You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example…Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to… — John Foley Copy Share Image
Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that we be serious about… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
When we say 'hallowed be Your name' to God what we are really saying is 'Father, make us such as deserve knowledge… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image