Holiness Quotes - Page 27

• Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

  Oswald Chambers

  Abandonment, Values

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.115, Discovery House

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• People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

  Mardy Grothe

  Pride, People, Sin

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• Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Doe, Accepting

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• 'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Struggle, Men

  Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.91, Paulist Press

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• We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Victory, Triumph, Improvement

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• Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.

  Martyn

  Order, May

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• Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Agreement, Benefits, Sin

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.67, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a question of the Holy Spirit's producing His fruit in the life, reproducing those graces which were seen in perfection in the life of Christ.

  F. F. Bruce

  Christian, Law, Perfection

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• Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Self, Affirmation

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• Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

  Maya Angelou

  Party, Injured

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• Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

  Phillips Brooks

  Heaven, Doe

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons preached in English churches, and other sermons”

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• Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.

  Mother Teresa

  Simple, Luxury, People

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.53, New World Library

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• Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Soul, Tasks, Holy

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• How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Journey, Mind

  "John Robbins Interviews Marianne Williamson". foodrevolution.org. January 01, 2013.

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• In Cuba, His Holiness [Pope Francis] won't find a government that protects its people and their God-given rights. Instead, he will find a regime that oppresses people and hinders progress, both socially and politically.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Government, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

  John Wesley

  Real, Life Is, Holy

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• Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Self, Religion

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 494, 1895.

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• If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.

  Peter Kreeft

  Biblical, Catholic, Abuse

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• The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.

  Robert Barron

  Unique, Simple, White

  Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, Image

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• The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.

  Mark Hart

  Holiday, Challenges, Demand

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• Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  School, People, Catholic

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• Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

  Paul Tillich

  Awareness

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.19, University of Chicago Press

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• The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Sin

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• In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

  Richard Baxter

  Encouragement, Differences, Honor

  Richard Baxter, Richard Bulger Schlatter (1957). “Richard Baxter & Puritan Politics”

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• It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

  Alan Chambers

  Honesty, Heart, Biblical

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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