Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as… — John Brown Copy Share Image
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
He cleared his throat and reminded himself that if you pissed Her Holiness off, they'd need barbecue tongs to pick up your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only… — Lance Colkmire Copy Share Image
The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“The Vicar’s talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For the glory of God, the good of others, and the satisfaction of our souls, the aim of the Christian life is… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess.… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In Christ every believer has a once-for-all positional holiness, and from this new identity every Christian is commanded to grow in the… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, “By imparting to them a nature which hates… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and… — Walter Hilton 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
My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Worshiping in the beauty of holiness is an invitation to be participants in the holiness of God, not perfecters of it.” — Tyler Braun Copy Share Image
My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit.… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness. — John Stott Copy Share Image
“THE LIGHT THAT NOW REFLECTS FROM WITHIN YOU RADIATES PURITY AND HOLINESS, WHICH CAUSES US TO BECOME A LIGHT TO THE WORLD.” — Garey Gordon Copy Share Image
And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up,… — Mel Tillis Copy Share Image
“But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin, than to… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The Spirit in the believer's spirit penetrates and spreads throughout their whole inner being.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Our progress in holiness exactly corresponds to our progress in the spirit of prayer: he who prays well lives well. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
