Personal Holiness Quotes

#1. Whether we are rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, straight or gay: all of us are called to our own brand of personal holiness.

James Martin

#2. 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

#3. Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

Gordon Fee

#4. Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

R.A. Torrey

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

John Wesley

#6. The pursuit of holiness is thus no mere private hobby, nor merely a path for a select few, but a vital element in Christian mission strategy today. The world's greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

J.I. Packer

#7. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish pastor and writer from the mid-1800s, said, "The greatest need of my congregation is my own personal holiness."1

Daron Brown

#8. To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.

Oswald Chambers

#9. Robert Murray McCheyne declared: My people's greatest need is my personal holiness.

J.I. Packer

#10. I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.

Robert E. Murray

#11. Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

Oswald Chambers

#12. With supernatural intuition Blessed Josemaria untiringly preached the universal call to holiness and apostolate. Christ calls everyone to become holy in the realities of everyday life. Hence work too is a means of personal holiness and apostolate when it is done in union with Jesus Christ

Pope John Paul II

#13. That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration of Scripture.

Augustus Toplady

#14. 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

#15. You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#16. Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

Mike Krieger

#17. Christianity, Christ, heaven, hell, the judgment, sin, holiness, God,
these, and whether they be true, or false, and our personal relations to them, whether they be right or wrong, are things to know about, not to be doubting or guessing about.

Herrick Johnson

#18. Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

Bob Schwartz

#19. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

Charles Simeon

#20. An actor cannot say no, it's against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it's very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

Olivier Martinez

#21. Where id is, there shall ego be

Sigmund Freud

#22. Worry is down payment on a problem that hasn't happened. Trust Jesus!

Jarrid Wilson

#23. Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy.

Silvia Hartmann

#24. And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich?

Ray Bradbury

#25. Nothing is impossible until you quit or die trying.

Wes Fesler

#26. Friend is a gift you give yourself.

Mary Engelbreit

#27. sanctification is coming into personal relationship with a Person in such a way that we increasingly image his scintillating holiness, his compassion, his patience, his self-discipline, his self-denial, his out-going love.

T.A. Noble

#28. As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

Eugene H. Peterson

#29. Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

Charles Colson

#30. His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh

George R R Martin

#31. When everyone resonates with the holiness and greatness within, we can overcome personal limitations and create mature change for the future of the earth. Not just one or two great individuals, but the birth of a great community
this is the only hope of the earth.

Ilchi Lee

#32. I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

St. Jerome

#33. Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

Gabrielle Zevin

#34. They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

Lauren Bacall

#35. The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

Pope John Paul II

#36. There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

B.J. Novak

#37. Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

Matthew Arnold

#38. They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.

Jon Ronson