Holiness Quotes

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

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

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

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

Dreams grow holy put in action.

Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.

There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

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

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).

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

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

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

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

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

God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

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

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

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

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

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

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.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

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

There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.

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

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

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

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.

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.