Top 100 His Holiness Quotes

#1. 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

His Holiness Quotes #24731
#2. Calvi was sobbing. This couldn't be! A moment ago the Pope was healthy, smiling. How could His Holiness be no longer? Only a month into his papacy!

Peter J. Tanous

His Holiness Quotes #25873
#3. 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

His Holiness Quotes #76998
#4. God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we bring our worship to him who is holy.

David F. Wells

His Holiness Quotes #139490
#5. God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

His Holiness Quotes #227668
#6. His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'

Richard Gere

His Holiness Quotes #265299
#7. We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.

Desmond Tutu

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#8. II. Their people are an excellent and happy people. God has renewed them, and instamped his own image upon them, and made them partakers of his holiness. They are more excellent than their neighbors, Prov. xii. 26.

Jonathan Edwards

His Holiness Quotes #351138
#9. I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness, when they don't have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God's going to yank His relationship from them

Alan Chambers

His Holiness Quotes #430489
#10. The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. How much am I doing about my anger, attachment, hatred, pride, and jealousy? These are the things we must check in our daily lives." - HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA

Haemin Sunim

His Holiness Quotes #498330
#11. It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.

Jerry Bridges

His Holiness Quotes #520354
#12. Yes, karma propels us into all kinds of unexpected situations," His Holiness said. "This is another reason we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again. Sometimes even in this same lifetime.

David Michie

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#13. God is not going to negotiate His holiness ... in order to accommodate us.

R.C. Sproul

His Holiness Quotes #555723
#14. But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness ... Without holiness no one will see the Lord. HEBREWS 12:10, 14

Andrew Murray

His Holiness Quotes #598513
#15. Acknowledging His holiness is one of the ways we are to praise God.

Jerry Bridges

His Holiness Quotes #705676
#16. As Pope Francis visits the United States for the very first time, it is our privilege as Catholics and Americans to welcome His Holiness to our country. Here, he will find people who are uniquely free.

Marco Rubio

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#17. Never look at how others who live dishonestly become rich, look at God and His holiness

Sunday Adelaja

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#18. God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

Max Anders

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#19. His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

Dalai Lama

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#20. If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

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#21. When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.

Martin Luther

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#22. It is only as we see His holiness, His absolute purity and moral hatred of sin, that we will be gripped by the awfulness of sin against the Holy God. To be gripped by that fact is the first step in our pursuit of holiness.

Jerry Bridges

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#23. We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.

Jonathan Martin

His Holiness Quotes #909349
#24. [God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

Scott Hahn

His Holiness Quotes #948913
#25. In emphasizing God's love over his holiness
his set-apartness as a sovereign, omniscient authority
we end up believing that his central concern is our individual happiness.

Leslie Leyland Fields

His Holiness Quotes #1011567
#26. Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of our praise.

Jerry Bridges

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#27. God can use impure vessels to serve his holiness

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#28. Pope, who took breakfast with me, His Holiness said he had accepted JAMES GORDON BENNETT'S invitation to come to Washington Heights

Various

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#29. We will never achieve holiness by what we do or don't do. Our only hope is to claim the holiness that Jesus died to give us: His holiness.

Alisa Hope Wagner

His Holiness Quotes #1090008
#30. A house divided against itself cannot stand. There is no middle road, no 'white' sin. One is either for God or against Him - there is no compromise between His holiness and the works of spiritual darkness.

Alicia A. Willis

His Holiness Quotes #1095794
#31. The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

E. M. Bounds

His Holiness Quotes #1137123
#32. Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something from him. It is above all fellowship with God and being brought under the power of his holiness and love, till he takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship.

Andrew Murray

His Holiness Quotes #1139260
#33. 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

His Holiness Quotes #1157331
#34. Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God ... The sinner and God are at opposite poles of the moral universe.

Billy Graham

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#35. It was an honor and a thrill to have the chance to meet His Holiness, Pope Benedict, and then to have lunch with Prime Minister Berlusconi ... I think Italy and the U. S. have a very strong friendship and relationship, and I'm proud of that.

Laura Bush

His Holiness Quotes #1214401
#36. No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Matthew Henry

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#37. 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

His Holiness Quotes #1324191
#38. God is holy, and to see His holiness means to do it His way.

James MacDonald

His Holiness Quotes #1336789
#39. The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

His Holiness Quotes #1389206
#40. In our humanness we can't handle all His holiness; so God, in mercy, raises the veil and dwells in mystery.

James MacDonald

His Holiness Quotes #1395534
#41. To say that God is love is not to romanticize his character or soften his holiness. In fact, the love of God means very little apart from his holiness and justice. The love of God is magnified in that he loves the unholy and pours out blessings upon those deserving just punishment for sin.

Joe Thorn

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#42. When we feel unworthy in His presence it's because we glimpse His holiness.

Lynn Austin

His Holiness Quotes #1447711
#43. 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

His Holiness Quotes #1455530
#44. Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Ricky Martin

His Holiness Quotes #1470381
#45. We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy
Presence. We are holy in His holiness, loving in His love, strong in His
strength, tender in His tenderness, patient in His patience, calm in His peace,
and consecrated in His consecration.

F. E. Marsh

His Holiness Quotes #1484134
#46. The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.

Randy Alcorn

His Holiness Quotes #1550580
#47. You know, Professor, this stray kitten and you have one very important thing in common.'
'I can't imagine,' responded the professor coolly.
'Your life is the most important thing in the world to you,' said His Holiness. 'Same for this kitten.

David Michie

His Holiness Quotes #1574092
#48. Draw close to Him and let your marriage be the overflow of that. When things are right with God, your marriage can actually become what it was designed to be. Peace comes when both parties come to an agreement. Agree on God - agree on His holiness and the supremacy He deserves in your lives.

Francis Chan

His Holiness Quotes #1657420
#49. To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

Richard Alleine

His Holiness Quotes #1662850
#50. People say God only gives us as much as we can handle. I say, his holiness thought spiders were a good idea. Point me toward a different authority.

Julie Johnson

His Holiness Quotes #1668070
#51. The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.

Arthur W. Pink

His Holiness Quotes #1679156
#52. By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

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#53. The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.

Joe Nichols

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#54. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama My Ass
When empathy becomes a trend,
we haven't reached a higher level of consciousness,
just a higher level of competition.

Beryl Dov

His Holiness Quotes #1739193
#55. The most that any of us can do is to say with Isaiah, as he beheld a vision of God in his holiness, "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!" (Isa. 6:5).

Michael S. Horton

His Holiness Quotes #1761516
#56. One who does not believe in God will not believe in God's people. He who believes in God's people will see His Holiness too, even though he had not believed in it till then.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His Holiness Quotes #1817342
#57. God's constant wealth is accessible to us, if we cultivate His holiness in our lives

Sunday Adelaja

His Holiness Quotes #1841964
#58. Preferring the comforting messages of certain attributes of God, our lives have become a trifling with His holiness. We desperately need to regain this view of the highness and the holiness of God. His holiness is the ultimate clarity.

James MacDonald

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#59. When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Richard Gere

His Holiness Quotes #1852320
#60. Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

Thomas Brooks

His Holiness Quotes #12190
#61. The hallowing of God's Name is the END toward which His Kingdom coming and the accomplishment of His will are among the MEANS.

Thomas Manton

His Holiness Quotes #25181
#62. 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

His Holiness Quotes #36046
#63. These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

John Stott

His Holiness Quotes #40567
#64. Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

A.W. Tozer

His Holiness Quotes #102067
#65. Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

Charles Spurgeon

His Holiness Quotes #109814
#66. Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice.

Joseph Alleine

His Holiness Quotes #193208
#67. Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty (S. Charnock). It is this, supremely, which renders Him lovely to those who are delivered from sin's dominion.

Arthur W. Pink

His Holiness Quotes #200220
#68. Live an adventurous life. Every adventure freshens your life anew, and you do not get bored. An adventurous person dies only once, but a coward dies thousands of times.

His Holiness Divas

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#69. 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

His Holiness Quotes #215953
#70. He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man.

Augustine Of Hippo

His Holiness Quotes #217400
#71. God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

Harold Lindsell

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#72. Wickedness arrays itself in fair garments, and imitates the language of holiness; but the precepts of Jesus, like His famous scourge of small cords, chase it out of the temple, and will not tolerate it in the Church.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

His Holiness Quotes #229966
#73. Any suggestion that God has returned to his Old Testament theocratic mode of operation - as in raising up America as a uniquely favored nation - is not only unwarranted, it is a direct assault on the distinct holiness of Jesus Christ and the kingdom he died to establish.

Gregory A. Boyd

His Holiness Quotes #252011
#74. Don't take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.

Billy Graham

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#75. Theism, however, teaches that not only is there a moral universe but there is an absolute standard by which all moral judgments are measured. God himself-his character of goodness (holiness and love)-is the standard.

James W. Sire

His Holiness Quotes #284614
#76. Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding - He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.

Alan Redpath

His Holiness Quotes #295665
#77. God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

Robert Jeffress

His Holiness Quotes #296754
#78. The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence.

Criss Jami

His Holiness Quotes #312521
#79. It is extraordinary how little the New Testament says about God's interest in our success, by comparison with the enormous amount that it says about God's interest in our holiness, our maturity in Christ, and our growth into the fullness of His image.

J.I. Packer

His Holiness Quotes #339432
#80. What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.

Matthew Henry

His Holiness Quotes #352701
#81. In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.64

Jerry Bridges

His Holiness Quotes #365965
#82. Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

John Owen

His Holiness Quotes #380359
#83. Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.

Mother Teresa

His Holiness Quotes #387943
#84. 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

His Holiness Quotes #403525
#85. We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness.

James MacDonald

His Holiness Quotes #411854
#86. If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.

Elisabeth Elliot

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#87. But the holiness of Jesus was more than simply the absence of actual sin. It was also a perfect conformity to the will of His Father.

Jerry Bridges

His Holiness Quotes #435793
#88. Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

John Flavel

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#89. Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness.

N.D. Wilson

His Holiness Quotes #620239
#90. God neither chose them nor called them because they were holy, but he called them that they might be holy, and holiness is the beauty produced by his workmanship in them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#91. Change is the only universal law in nature. People resist the universal law of nature. As if they can resist it. And they suffer. People suffer because of their own resistance and rigidness. Otherwise, life if so simple and straight-forward.

His Holiness Divas

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#92. You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man, but that is sadly not the case.

James MacDonald

His Holiness Quotes #656302
#93. Hope,' he says, 'cherishes the soul of him who lives in justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey; - hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man.

Plato

His Holiness Quotes #656824
#94. There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

Pope John Paul II

His Holiness Quotes #663388
#95. With a sense of humor, you can tackle any situation in life. Moreover, you'll also learn to see the funny side of things.

His Holiness Divas

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#96. Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.

J.C. Ryle

His Holiness Quotes #689942
#97. There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

Gordon B. Hinckley

His Holiness Quotes #702531
#98. We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.

Jerry Bridges

His Holiness Quotes #748583
#99. A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

His Holiness Quotes #759735
#100. Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.

Jerry Bridges

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