Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Is there any holy beings like human beings?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…

— Hermann Hesse

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he…

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

“The HOLY of Holiness!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will…

— William Monahan

Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put…

— Adoniram Judson Gordon

God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.…

— John Owen

“Mother Teresa, when asked about her holiness or saintliness, always answers in a matter-of-fact way that holiness is a necessity of life--and explains that…

— Lucinda Vardey

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

— Hildegard of Bingen

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The…

— John Piper

“I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but…

— Jared Brock

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the…

— Annie Dillard

“If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection…

— Oswald Chambers

The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be…

— Edmund Clowney