Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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

Mel Tillis

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

Stephen Jay Gould

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

Donald Cargill

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.

Swami Vivekananda

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

John Stott

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

Florence Nightingale

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.

Henry Miller

We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

Franz Werfel

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

J. C. Ryle

The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.

Frederick William Faber

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

Jerry Bridges

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Oswald Chambers

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

R. C. Sproul

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

R. C. Sproul

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

R. C. Sproul

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

Marcus Mumford

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

Lord Byron

I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.

John Calvin

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 through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

Mother Teresa

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

Leo Tolstoy

A holy spirit lives within you.

Thomas Aquinas

Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.

Paul Tillich

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.