Holiness Quotes - Page 5

• No one will be offended if we tell them that they are good people who could be a little better. The offense comes when we tell them that they - and we - are ungodly people who cannot impress God or escape his tribunal. Until our preaching of the law has exposed our hearts and God's holiness at that profound level, our hearers will never flee to Christ alone for safety even if they come to us for advice.

  Michael Horton

  Heart, Law, Profound

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.130, Baker Books

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• We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Unique, Doe, Unattainable

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• If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airways and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, therighteousness of God and the law of God, until sinners would cry out, 'What must we do to be saved?' Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Such drastic action is needed because we have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.

  Paris Reidhead

  God, Christian, America

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• If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Father, School

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• It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Doubt, Important, Trust In God

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.15, NavPress

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• We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Spiritual, Peace

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• To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Running, Way, Hard

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• Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Dwelling, Scripture, Taught

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• If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, God, Christian

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• To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.554, Discovery House

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• Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Life, Faith, Christian

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.75, CCEL

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• ...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Responsibility, Doe, Reign

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.41, NavPress

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• It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.

  Louis Berkhof

  Doe, Fundamentals, Speak

  Louis Berkhof (1996). “Systematic Theology”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Grace, Sovereign

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.440, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

  Alexander Schmemann

  Love Is, Essence, Church

  Alexander Schmemann (1988). “The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom”, p.137, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

  Ed Stetzer

  Sins Not, People, Culture

  FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Mar 11, 2010

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• Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Believe, Sanctification, Drudgery

  Twitter post from Apr 11, 2015

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• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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.

  Richard Baxter

  Dedication, Soul And Body, Flesh

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.19

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• Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

  Arthur Miller

  Book, Degrees, Share

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.17, A&C Black

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• It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Men, Needs

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Real, First Love

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• Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Conformity, Obedience

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.52, NavPress

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• Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Love, Real, Humility

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

  J. Vernon McGee

  Order, New Life, Firsts

  J. Vernon McGee (1995). “Daniel: The Prophets (Daniel)”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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