Holiness Quotes - Page 10

• Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Study, Word Of God

  R. A. Torrey (1991). “The Best of R. A. Torrey”

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• Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

  Franz Werfel

  Mystery, Divine, Mankind

  "The Song of Bernadette". Book by Franz Werfel, 1941.

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• It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

  David Jeremiah

  Omnipotence, Judging, Worthy

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• Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

  Philip Yancey

  Opposites, Grace, Doorways

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• Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Soul, Impossible

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.5, New World Library

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• God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.

  John Ortberg

  Children, Pain, Train Of Thought

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Fire, Wrath

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• We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Book, Divine Feminine, Forever

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• 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 about, what he has already done in you; and be ashamed. Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness than this: That the blessed Spirit, who has undertaken to dwell in them, is continually considering what they give entertainment in their hearts unto, and rejoices when his temple is kept undefiled.

  John Owen

  Blessed, Heart, Giving

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• 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 round its roots so the tree is able to get its roots deeper into the earth, where it receives fresh supplies of nourishment. But only much later will it be seen to bring forth better fruit. So corruptions and temptations develop the roots of humility, self-abasement and mourning in a deeper search for that grace by which holiness grows strong. But only later will there be visible fruits of increased holiness.

  John Owen

  Strong, Humility, Self

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• It is no small advantage to the holy life, to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with him over-night, that they may find them with Him in the morning. "When I awake, I am still with thee," saith holy David. Before earthly things break in upon us, and we receive impressions from abroad, it is good to season the heart with thoughts of God, and to consecrate the early and virgin operations of the mind.

  Thomas Case

  Christian, Morning, Heart

  "Puritan sermons, 1659-1689: being the morning exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles in the Fields, and in Southwark".

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• What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was his means of redeeming lost sinners and reconciling them to himself, but it was also a profound disclosure of his mercy. It is, in Paul’s words, an ‘inexpressible gift’ that leads us to wonder and worship, to praise and adore the God who has given himself to us in this way.

  David F. Wells

  Mean, Character, White

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• I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

  Lucian

  Men, Blow, Divinity

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• It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith... Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.

  Richard Lovelace

  Children, Acceptance, Exercise

  "Dynamics of Spiritual Life".

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• Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

  Charles Studd

  Home, Pride, Men

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• Holiness sincerity, and faith.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Sincerity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.120, Advaita Ashrama

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• Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, World, Body

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• Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Thinking, Catholic

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• All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

  Mother Teresa

  Father, Giving, Catholic

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• I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

  Marcus Mumford

  Approach, Muster, I Can

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• Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Progress, Holy, Our Relationship

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2012). “The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings”, p.192, Moody Publishers

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• It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Hurt, Sins Not, Choices

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy”, p.300, Moody Publishers

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• God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.

  Watchman Nee

  Jesus, Humility, Son

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• 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.

  Watchman Nee

  Jesus, Giving Up, Firsts

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.113, CLC Publications

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• Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

  A. B. Simpson

  Heart, Dwelling, Perfection

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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