If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain-we must begin with Christ. We must go to Him as sinners,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
With supernatural intuition Blessed Josemaria untiringly preached the universal call to holiness and apostolate. Christ calls everyone to become holy in the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity. I… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“This light, and this only, has its fruit in an universal holiness of life. No merely notional or speculative understanding of the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“When the writer of Hebrews said, “Without holiness no one will see the Lord,” he was not making a threat but describing… — Paul Ellis Copy Share Image
His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were,… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
“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… — Lucinda Vardey Copy Share Image
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It was an honor and a thrill to have the chance to meet His Holiness, Pope Benedict, and then to have lunch… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of… — Gordon Fee Copy Share Image
Christians actually need to be confronted by their real need-an understanding of God's holiness and their own sinfulness-so they can be usable… — John F. MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Learn to cease from your own wisdom as well as your own goodness; draw near in poverty of spirit to let the… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness, when they… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If you want to be holy, if you seek meaning in your life, start looking into your own life and attacking your… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy Presence. We are holy in His holiness,… — F. E. Marsh Copy Share Image
True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not.… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“We all have sinned and fall short of his holiness. That’s why we need him. When he forgives me and comes into… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while -… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
![“His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'” quote by Richard Gere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/186/richard-gere-3534_clarity_his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-has-told-me_1607458.jpg)
