Holiness Quotes - Page 21

• What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Lying, Heart

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• By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

  John Wesley

  Recovery, Mean, Justice

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.219

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• We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

  Henry Miller

  Kind, Holy, Snares

  Henry Miller (1963). “The Rosy Crucifixion”

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• We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.

  Mark Batterson

  Leadership, Christian, Appreciate

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2014

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• As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.

  William Law

  Life, Christian, Business

  William Law (1816). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians by the Late ... ; to which is Added a Biographical Sketch of the Author”, p.39

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• The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

  Paul Stewart

  Doctrine, Hell, Christ

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• People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Animal, Law

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• Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Greatness, Mind, Body

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• The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Causes, Principles

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

  William Blake

  Wise, Caring, Men

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 4' (plate 91, l. 54)

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• Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Father, Heaven

  Richard Baxter, John Wesley (1817). “The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory”, p.86

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• Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Israel, Land

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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• It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Religious, Philosophical, Creativity

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• The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

  Todd Akin

  Father, Heart, Catholic

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• I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Live Life, Made

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• Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.

  Richard Davidson

  Buddhist, Unique, Technology

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• Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

  Starhawk

  Hierarchy, Sacred, Inherent

  "The Fifth Sacred Thing". Book by Starhawk, 1993.

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• In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Pride, Flesh, Spirit

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• Escape
  from the power of the hunting pack,
  and to know that wisdom is best
  and beauty
  sheer holiness.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Hunting, Worship, Ecstasy

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.228, New Directions Publishing

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• Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

  John Calvin

  Wisdom, Honesty, Truth

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.173, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.

  Olympia Brown

  Women, Real, Character

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• Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Reading

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• When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Relief, Looks, Matter

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• Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Decision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1504, Delphi Classics

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• Christianity, Christ, heaven, hell, the judgment, sin, holiness, God,--these, and whether they be true, or false, and our personal relations to them, whether they be right or wrong, are things to know about, not to be doubting or guessing about.

  Herrick Johnson

  Heaven, Doubt, Guessing

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

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