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Holiness Quotes by John Owen
- Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill…
- Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul…
- What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).
- Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth…
- God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It…
- There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of…
- What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear,…
- The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is…
- Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things…
More Holiness Quotes
- How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth,… — 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… — William Blake
- God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected… — Abraham Cahan
- I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the… — Donald Cargill
- I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that… — Donald Cargill
- In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude… — Watchman Nee
- All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through… — John Cassian
- It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not… — Austin Phelps
- When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives… — Smith Wigglesworth
- Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda
- The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — 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… — Unknown Author