Holiness Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.

  Matt Redman

  Earth, Faces, Anthem

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• Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated from God. Nowehere else does the inviolable holiness of God, the impossibility of overlooking the guilt of man stand out more plainly; but nowhere else does the limitless mercy of God, which utterly transcends all human standards, stand out more clearly and plainly.

  Emil Brunner

  Men, Mercy Of God, Guilt

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• Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

  Mother Teresa

  Grace, Progress, Holy

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Being In Love, People

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• 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 is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.

  John Owen

  Our Generation, Justice, Generations

  John Owen (1990). “The Works of John Owen”

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• Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mother, Nurse, Grace

  Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

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• Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Spring, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Character, Hatred, Saving

  Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

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• 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.

  Pope John Paul II

  Humility, World, Determined

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• 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 themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.

  John Owen

  Humble, Mean, Greatness

  John Owen (1774). “Nature, Power, Deceit and Prevalency of Indwelling Sin in Believers ...”, p.86

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• Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

  Gordon Fee

  Christian, Live Life, Community

  Gordon D. Fee (1994). “Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God”, p.81, Baker Academic

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• In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spirituality, Cleanliness, Purity

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• 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, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?

  John Owen

  Christian, Grace, Soul

  John Owen “The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ & Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ”, Lulu.com

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• Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Fighting, Grace

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

  J. C. Ryle

  Grace, Growth, Together

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.121, Letcetera Publishing

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• The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness, and never swerves from the path of duty. He is deep like a fountain. He sends forth his virtues in due season. He speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with Heaven.

  Griffith John

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Humanity, Pearls, Strings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama

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• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty . . .

  John Keats

  Passion, Heart, Ideas

  1817 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov.

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• Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Perfect, Heaven

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

  Chiara Lubich

  Love, Attachment, Goal

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• God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God

  D. A. Carson

  Love Is, Emotional, Wrath

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• Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.

  Jeff Buckley

  Hands, Soul, Shapes

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• Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others may think - but to me it does seem clear that Heaven would be a miserable place to an unholy man. It cannot be otherwise. People may say in a vague way, that they "hope to go to Heaven, but they do not consider what they say. There must be a certain "fitness for the inheritance of the saints in light.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Thinking, Light

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