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Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.

Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.

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.

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14].

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

Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God’s holiness and our sinfulness.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

I find nothing in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness. Therefore, if I live in the world, I will become worldly; on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I will become holy.

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

I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.

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.

If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

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

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.

If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption, and regeneration, and do NOT preach of these things in a Scriptural way, you ought to cease to hear them.

I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration. Wherever you open it, any page, you know that you are in the presence of something that exists nowhere else.

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.

It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.

Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!

Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.

Many Christians have what we might call a 'cultural holiness.' They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them...But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

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

Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

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