Holiness Quotes
483 quotes by 259 authors
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How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another,…
— William Blake
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while…
— Abraham Cahan
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I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our…
— Donald Cargill
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from…
— Donald Cargill
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In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude towards His will…
— Watchman Nee
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All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.
— John Cassian
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It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We…
— Austin Phelps
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can…
— William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to…
— Samuel Henry Miller
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
— C.S. Lewis
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
— John Flavel
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Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a…
— Arthur W. Pink
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Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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