Holiness Quotes

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

The Holy Spirit has a sanctifying influence. The influence of the Holy Spirit tends towards sanctification, purity and holiness. Expect to live a life of greater purity, sanctification and holiness when under the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit.

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14].

When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

Where You are, Lord I am free, holiness is Christ in me.

Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.

We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.

Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so live, you do not live in the presence of the Holy One of Israel.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.

Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness

Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.

Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.

When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

What is holiness? The end product of what holiness is it's to love God in the same way He loves Himself; it's to esteem God as much as He esteems Himself, and to separate yourself unto that love, and to keep yourself in that love.

Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.

Jesus calls us to a holiness that is positive, generous and openhearted. It's a difficult, daring challenge - do we accept it?