Holiness Quotes - Page 19

• The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.

  Robert Jeffress

  Jesus, Christ, Crosses

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When you eat, I want you to think of God, of the holiness of hands that feed us, of the provision we are given every time we eat. When you eat bread and you drink wine, I want you to think about the body and the blood every time, not just when the bread and wine show up in church, but when they show up anywhere- on a picnic table or a hardwood floor or a beach.

  Shauna Niequist

  Beach, Wine, Thinking

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• After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Prayer, Meditation, Decision

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• A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Music, Strong, Eye

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• To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Integrity, Gay

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.

  Desmond Tutu

  Gun, Winning, Government

  "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu", BBC News, June 2, 2006.

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• Let the separation between you and the world be final and irreversible. Say, 'Here I go for Christ and His Cross, for the faith of the Bible, for the laws of God, for holiness, for trust in Jesus; and never will I go back, come what may.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Law, Finals

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• Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Struggle, Evil, Waiting

  Frederick William Robertson (1868). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.331

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• Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Mold, Saint

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

  Shirley Jackson

  House, Atmosphere, Might

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.58, Penguin

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• Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness.

  N.D. Wilson

  Cells, Msg, Voice

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• Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mean, Men, Light

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heaven, Christ, Depends

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 228), 1895.

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• The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

  Charles Kingsley

  Church, Virtue, Individual

  Charles Kingsley (1856). “Hypatia ... The second edition”, p.11

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• Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Simple, Blood, Trust In God

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 602, 1895.

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• Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

  Henry Vaughan

  Writing, Mean, Doors

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1858). “Silex Scintillans, &c: Sacred Poems and Pious Ejaculations”, p.10

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• When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

  John Calvin

  Unions, Remember, Christ

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.17, Baker Books

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• Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

  John Calvin

  Merit, Christ, Communion

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.17, Baker Books

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• Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

  Paul David Tripp

  Focus, Able, Glory

  Paul David Tripp (2007). “A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You”, p.66, David C Cook

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• The most destructive criticism has not been able to dethrone Christ as the incarnation of perfect holiness. The waves of a tossing and restless sea of unbelief break at His feet, and He stands still the supreme model, the inspiration of great souls, the rest of the weary, the fragrance of all Christendom, the one divine flower in the garden of God.

  Herrick Johnson

  Flower, Inspiration, Garden

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.

  Stephen Young

  Religious, Mean, Empowering

  Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.9, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice.

  Joseph Alleine

  Practice, Principles, Woven

  Joseph Alleine (1700). “A Sure Guide to Heaven”, p.25, Digital Puritan Press

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• Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, Depth, Sin

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Perspective, Steps, Moral

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• How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, “By imparting to them a nature which hates evil and loves holiness.” This takes place when they are born again, so that actual salvation begins with regeneration. Of course it does; where else could it commence? Fallen man can neither perceive his desperate need of salvation, nor come to Christ for it, till he has been renewed by the Holy Spirit.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Hate, Men, Evil

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