Inspirational Quotes on Holiness

“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. ”

“It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.”

“There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.”

“Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.”

“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”

“When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.”

“You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.”

“It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.”

“In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.”

“A faith which works not for purification will work for putrefaction. Unless our faith makes us pine after holiness, it is no better than the faith of devils, and perhaps it is not even so good as that. A holy man is the workmanship of the Holy Spirit.”

“The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.”

“Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixed upright.”

“I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.”

“I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.”

“If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.”

“If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.”

“In holiness God is more clearly seen than in anything else, save in the Person of Christ Jesus the Lord, of whose life such holiness is but a repetition.”

“Prick him anywhere; and you will find that his blood is Bibline, the very essence of the Bible flows from him. He cannot speak without quoting a text, for his soul is full of the Word of God.”

“Whatever "call" a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.”

“I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.”