Top 1200 Holiness Of God Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness

Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.

Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

The Bible indicates that for three days, Jesus went into the very depths of hell. Right into the enemy's own territory. And He did battle with Satan face to face. Can you imagine what a show down that was? It was good vs. evil. Right vs. wrong. Holiness vs. filth. Here are the two most powerful forces in the universe have come together to do battle for the first time in history. But thank God. The Bible says, "Satan was no match for our Champion". This was no contest.

Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is impossible to obtain a Scriptural knowledge that the merits of Christ's finished work are reckoned to my account, except by proving that the efficacy of the Holy Spirit's work is evident in my soul.

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

Where You are, Lord I am free, holiness is Christ in me.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on him by faith, for peace and reconciliation with God.... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

In God’s great plan, every detail is important, even yours, even my humble little witness, even the hidden witness of those who live their faith with simplicity in everyday family relationships, work relationships, friendships. There are the saints of every day, the “hidden” saints, a sort of “middle class of holiness” to which we can all belong.

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.

When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.

We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.

There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people usually talk, and the God who talks to us. The god we learn to fear, and the God who speaks to us of mercy. The god who is somewhere up on high, and the God who is here in our daily lives. The god who demands punishment, and the God who forgives us our trespasses. The god who threatens us with the torments of Hell, and the God who shows us the true path. There are two gods. A god who casts us off because of our sins, and a God who calls to us with His love.

The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

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

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood, the very ground of God. If you can love non-being then nothing can destroy you, you have transcended time and space. Then you have become one with the total, and this is what holiness is - to become whole is to be holy.

Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.

See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Holiness never goes out of fashion.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.

Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul about, what he has already done in you; and be ashamed. Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness than this: That the blessed Spirit, who has undertaken to dwell in them, is continually considering what they give entertainment in their hearts unto, and rejoices when his temple is kept undefiled.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love.

Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.

One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.

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

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.