Top 100 Holiness Is Quotes
#1. Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.
J.C. Ryle
#2. Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
Mother Teresa
#3. We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that - and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission - what you would have, could have, and should have done - that break the heart of your heavenly Father.
Mark Batterson
#4. Holiness is the object of our new creation. We are born again so that we may grow up into Christlikeness.
J.I. Packer
#5. The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
J.I. Packer
#6. Part of the answer to the question that life's roller-coaster ride repeatedly raises, why has this happened to me? is always: it is moral training and discipline, planned by my Heavenly Father to help me forward along the path of Chrislike virtue.
J.I. Packer
#7. Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
Thomas Brooks
#8. Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.
Billy Graham
#9. 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
#10. Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Watchman Nee
#12. What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
N. T. Wright
#13. The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called. - Horatius Bonar
Randy Alcorn
#14. There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
R.C. Sproul
#16. The true measure of spiritual growth is not how much you've learned in the past year but how much you've grown in holiness.
Mike Bullmore
#17. Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
Ed Stetzer
#19. Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
#20. 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
#21. The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
Mother Teresa
#23. I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
#24. Beauty is in the holiness of the heart and in the simplicity of mind.
Debasish Mridha
#25. The problem with using our desires as the litmus test for holiness is that sin feels more normal than righteousness.
Jen Wilkin
#26. It's much easier to blow our moral police horns on all those transgressors running around than it is to live penetrating lives of holiness.
Kelly Minter
#28. 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
#29. Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.
C. Wagner
#30. How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!
Joseph Hall
#31. Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace.
James E. Faust
#33. In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculations. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up in Him.
Oswald Chambers
#34. The divine order then is first pardon, then holiness; first peace with God, and then conformity to the image of that God with whom we have been brought to be at peace.
Horatius Bonar
#35. Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.
Christopher West
#36. Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
#37. Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good - death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly.
Hermann Hesse
#38. 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
#39. The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. South
Edward Abbey
#40. The church belongs at the very heart of the world, to be the place of prayer and holiness at the point where the world is in pain - not to be a somewhat "religious" version of the world, on the one hand, or a detached, heavenly minded enclave, on the other. It
N. T. Wright
#41. Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#42. The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too holy.
Gabriel Chevallier
#43. True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
Jonathan Edwards
#44. Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.
Rod Dreher
#45. The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.
Steven J. Lawson
#46. Holiness will be found in "all things," not just in what we think is sacred.
Ray Harris
#47. After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#48. I have spent much of my adult life trying to figure out how to experience holiness, and now I know that the struggle to figure things out is antithetical to the experience. You simply relax into holiness the way you would a warm bath.
Victor Shamas
#49. The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody.
Anne Bronte
#50. Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.
J.C. Ryle
#51. I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
William Blake
#52. Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be allowed to remove a few grains of ignorance, and to throw a few rays of light on God's precious word, is, in my opinion, the greatest honor that can be put on a Christian.
J.C. Ryle
#53. The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
John Wesley
#54. 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
#55. Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.
Leonard Cohen
#56. People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
Thomas Merton
#57. 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
#58. How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible
C.S. Lewis
#59. 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
#60. Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.
Charles Spurgeon
#61. 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
#62. Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#63. What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. 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
#64. A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.
Thomas Watson
#65. As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.
Jerry Bridges
#66. Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
A.B. Simpson
#67. But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.
Mary Oliver
#68. There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.
Harold S. Kushner
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas
#72. To reduce the demands of God's law is to do violence to the holiness of God. To inflate one's own self-assessment to the point of self-delusion is an extreme form of pride.
R.C. Sproul
#73. The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.
Harold S. Kushner
#74. 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
#75. Don't take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.
Billy Graham
#76. Holiness is the remaking of our inward and hidden desires and affections, when the Holy Spirit of God dwells in our mortal bodies.
Oswald Chambers
#77. The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.
Roland Allen
#78. Thus the motivation, energy and drive for holiness are all found in the reality and power of God's grace in Christ. And so if I am to make any progress in sanctification, the place where I must always begin is the gospel of the mercy of God to me in Christ Jesus.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#79. 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
#80. When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)
Victoria Moran
#81. 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
#82. The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three other interrelated biblical truths: human sin, God's holiness, and the cross of Christ.
Douglas Groothuis
#83. 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
#84. When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.
Frank Bartleman
#85. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb.
Macrina Wiederkehr
#86. Both glory and dominion last forever but glory is for God and dominion is for mankind.
Auliq Ice
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.
Francis Schaeffer
#90. Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven ... How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy?
J.C. Ryle
#91. 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
#92. LIII.
What is the holiness of conversation?
It is
to master death.
Anne Carson
#93. It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#94. Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God's holiness and our sinfulness.
C.J. Mahaney
#95. The body is your only home in the universe. It is your house of belonging here in the world. It is a very sacred temple. To spend time in silence before the mystery of your body brings you toward wisdom and holiness.
John O'Donohue
#96. Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#97. 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
#98. Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
#99. 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
#100. You do not say someone is holy because he puts forth great ideas concerning the knowledge of God and the attributes of God.
Michael Molinos
