Holiness Quotes - Page 16

• She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

  Lian Hearn

  Prayer, Everyday, World

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

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• Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Envy, Innocent

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• Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

  Henry Beston

  Stars, Fear, Night

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Fascination, Details, Accurate

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “I Have Landed”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.

  Philip Yancey

  Gratitude, Great Love, Doe

  Philip Yancey (2003). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.112, HarperCollins Christian Publishing

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• The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Christian, Infinite Beauty

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• We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate our redemption. God's love, grace, and mercy shine all the brighter against the awful reality of evil. Indeed, the very existence of evil is a powerful proof of God's existence and holiness.

  Dave Hunt

  Powerful, Reality, Grace And Mercy

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• Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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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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• Holiness sincerity, and faith.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Sincerity

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

  Frederick William Faber

  Frederick William Faber (1857). “The Creator and the Creature Or the Wonders of Divine Love”, p.58

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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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• 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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• 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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• God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we bring our worship to him who is holy.

  David F. Wells

  Love Is, Grace, Victory

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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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• God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Redemption, Demand, Way

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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