Holiness Quotes - Page 24

• A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lovely, Delight, God Love

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “The Religious Affections”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Essence, Simplicity

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.273

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• He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Important, World, Moral

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.284

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• Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Self, Giving, Left

  Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.5, SUNY Press

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• All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Principles, Facts

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.

  Brennan Manning

  Mind, Speech, Majesty

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.25, Multnomah

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• Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your own life are anchored in greatness, in holiness, in worth, in grace, in joy, in excitement -in internal certainties rather than external circumstances. Because that belief? That's where you're heading, no matter what it may look like on the outside.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Greatness, Joy

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• When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God’s grace...Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love.

  Darlene Zschech

  Humanness Is, Grace, And Love

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• It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then can we be empty enough and open enough to discover the holiness we were made for. When we are stuffed full of other things and never allow ourselves to be in a place of longing, we don't recognize the deeper spiritual battle going on.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Spiritual, People, Battle

  Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food”, p.168, Thomas Nelson

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• Wounds.
  Broken places.
  Possibility.
  Change.
  Steps toward holiness.
  Imperfect progress.
  The hurt in those who hurt me---their underbellies.
  Grace.
  Love.
  Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before.
  And to discover through all this seeing---being unglued isn't all that bad.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Hurt, Broken

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• Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Self, Path, Pursuit

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• Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

  Jerry Bridges

  Cutting, Two, Broken

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• The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Use, Spirit, Satan

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.30, NavPress

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• The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian.  No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Effort, Degrees

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

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• Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Desire, Repentance

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• Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Letting Go, Prayer

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

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• The Holy Spirit has a sanctifying influence. The influence of the Holy Spirit tends towards sanctification, purity and holiness. Expect to live a life of greater purity, sanctification and holiness when under the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit.

  Dag Heward-Mills

  Sweet, Spirit, Influence

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• We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Lying, Color

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• Holiness is not just for some select few spiritual giants; it is not just for pious people who sit around all day with nothing to do but “be holy.”... “Everyone who names the name of the Lord” is called to live a holy life!

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Spiritual, Names, People

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.33, Moody Publishers

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• Holiness is not some lofty experience, unattainable except to those who can leap the stars, but it is rather a lowly experience, which lowly people in the lowly walks of life can share with Jesus, by letting His mind be in them.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Life, Christian, Jesus

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• Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Gods Will

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• You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.

  Anne Lamott

  Laughter, Robins, Spirit

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• The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Water, Balance, Virtue

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in Judaism it is called ashrei, an inner sense of holiness and health. Is Islam it is called falah, happiness and well-being, and in Hinduism it is called ananda, or pure bliss.

  Marci Shimoff

  Happiness, Buddhism, Joy

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Different, Causes

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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