Holiness Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

  Francis Chan

  Order, Christian Inspirational, Perfect

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.20, David C Cook

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• If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Life, Christian, Jesus

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• Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Inspiration, Years

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• Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Waiting, World, Belief

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that grace may abound'. That's the worse form of antinomianism. But strictly speaking, antinomianism simply means no-law, and some Christians have very little place for the law in their pursuit of holiness.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Mean, Law

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• Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Spiritual, Character

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• Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hard Work, Self, Evil

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• That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the ages - pious egoists they have been. They have made their ego even more decorated; it has taken the color of religion and holiness. Your ego is better than the ego of a saint; your ego is better, far better - because your ego is very gross, and the gross ego can be understood and dropped more easily than the subtle. The subtle ego goes on playing such games that it is very difficult. One will need absolute awareness to watch it.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Taken, Color

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• I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration. Wherever you open it, any page, you know that you are in the presence of something that exists nowhere else.

  Hershel Shanks

  Inspiration, Pages, Divine

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

  Jerry Bridges

  True Joy, Joy, Walks

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24”, p.90, Tyndale House

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• Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Pathways, Obedience

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.111, NavPress

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• What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

  David W. Orr

  Beauty, Teacher, Real

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• Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Children, Water

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• The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Space, Trying, Six

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan

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• His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.

  Kofi Annan

  Religious, Strong, Commitment

  "Joseph Ratzinger Becomes Pope Benedict XVI". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2005.

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• Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Determination, Path

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• Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Prayer, Humility

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.65, SPCK

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• The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Modern, Holiness Of God

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.183, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

  John of Ruysbroeck

  Goodness

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• stop the darkness and its amputations
  and find the real McCoy
  in the private holiness
  of my hands.

  Anne Sexton

  Real, Hands, Darkness

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Giving Up, Commitment

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.72, NavPress

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