Holiness Quotes - Page 17

• The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.

  Deborah Keenan

  Blessing, Water, Tears

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• With supernatural intuition Blessed Josemaria untiringly preached the universal call to holiness and apostolate. Christ calls everyone to become holy in the realities of everyday life. Hence work too is a means of personal holiness and apostolate when it is done in union with Jesus Christ

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Blessed, Mean

  Pope John Paul II (1994). “Letters to My Brother Priests”, Midwest Theological Forum

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• Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say, 'What a pretty flower,' but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still, not present, they don't truly see the flower, don't feel it's essence, it's holiness-just as they don't know themselves, don't feel their own essence, their own holiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Essence, People

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

  Annie Dillard

  Thinking, Soul, Wave

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• Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.
  [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Religion, Piety

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• I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Believe, Gun, Cities

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• Christians actually need to be confronted by their real need-an understanding of God's holiness and their own sinfulness-so they can be usable to Him for His Glory. When we have a right relationship to God, every aspect of our lives will settle into its divinely ordained place. ... We are still to need other needs but it begins with a high view of God.

  John F. MacArthur

  Christian, Real, Views

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• The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Laughter, Problem

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• Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

  Annie Dillard

  Each Day

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Holy the Firm”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Christian, Earth

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• Holiness never goes out of fashion.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fashion

  Pope Benedict XVI (2011). “Holiness Is Always in Season”, p.9, Ignatius Press

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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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• Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Easter, Reality

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• We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.

  Jerry Bridges

  Son, Grace, Unions

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• The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms &  clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Nice, Dark, Giving

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• Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Crumbling

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• Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of this error our churches are full of substandard Christians. A revival is among other things a return to the belief that real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Real, Heart

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• God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

  Harold Lindsell

  Prayer, Character, People

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• Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Fighting, Battle, Tools

  Jerry Bridges (1996). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Anything that belittles or obliterates the holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation of God given by Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Views, God Love

  Oswald Chambers (2014). “Love: A Holy Command”, p.87, Discovery House

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• Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.

  John Angell James

  Love Is, Joy, And Love

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 478, 1895.

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• You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.

  Jan Phillips

  Christian, Real, Compassion

  "Republicans and the Christian Vote" by Jan Phillips, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februuary 19, 2012.

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• There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.

  Leighton Ford

  Jesus, Detours, Resurrection

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• The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.

  Alma Luz Villanueva

  Heaven, Challenges, Sacred

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• Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Men, Useless

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