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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

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.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

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.

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.

Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption

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

Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

Once we repossess a sense of our own holiness, we will recover the sense of the holiness of the world... Only in this way will we once again become aware that our destiny and the destiny of nature are one and the same.

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

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

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

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

Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival.

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

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

Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?" "Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.

Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.