Holiness Quotes

483 quotes by 259 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible! — C.S. Lewis
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
Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow. — Madeleine L'Engle
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
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness. — John Flavel
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
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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