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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.

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

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.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

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

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.

The Holy Spirit has a sanctifying influence. The influence of the Holy Spirit tends towards sanctification, purity and holiness. Expect to live a life of greater purity, sanctification and holiness when under the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray from the field of faith and morals and wonder into the playground that is science... it is not the business of the church to pronounce on science.

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.

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.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

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.

The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love.

The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.

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.

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

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.