A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
– A. W. Tozer
Holiness
What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
– Matthew Henry
Blessings | Holiness | Righteousness
Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Strength | Holiness
Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding–He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.
– Alan Redpath
Holiness | Transformation | Struggles
The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.
– Matthew Henry
Holiness | Youth | Beauty
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
– James H. Aughey
Suffering | Holiness | Men
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
– Adrian Rogers
Holiness
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.
– J.I. Packer
Holiness
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
– Rick Warren
Holiness
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
– Richard Baxter
Holiness | Preparation
If we walk in righteousness He will carry us through.
– A. B. Simpson
Holiness | Righteousness
I’m convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that’s not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
– Charles Stanley
Holiness | Meditation | Vocation
True holiness isn’t cold and deadening – it’s warm and inviting. It’s irresistible. Those who think otherwise have never seen it, but only its caricatures.
– Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Holiness
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.
– William Booth
Holiness | Fire
Christ-likeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.
– Rick Warren
Holiness
No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.
– A. W. Tozer
Happiness | Holiness
In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God – we must be born from above.
– J. Vernon McGee
Holiness
Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.
– Charles Stanley
Holiness | Renewal | Transformation
The One who calls you to a life of righteousness is the One who by our consent lives that life of righteousness through you!
– Major Ian Thomas
Holiness | Righteousness
Character will take you further than knowledge.
– Jack Wellman
Holiness | Character
Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.
– Frederick W. Faber
Holiness | Self-denial
There are those who have a life they never live. They have come to Christ and thanked Him only for what He did, but do not live in the power of who He is.
– Major Ian Thomas
Holiness
When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.
– David Jeremiah
Examples | Holiness | Joy
Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven… How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy?
– J. C. Ryle
Holiness | Heaven
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: “No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.”
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness
The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.
– Hudson Taylor
Holiness
The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.
– John Owen
Holiness | Worship | Doctrine
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Jesus | Holiness | Discipline
When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.
– John Newton
Holiness
Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.
– Samuel Chadwick
Holiness | Fire
Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle. The people you rub shoulders with everyday need that kind of challenge. Not prudish. Not preachy. Just cracker jack clean living. Just honest to goodness, bone – deep, non-hypocritical integrity.
– Chuck Swindoll
Holiness | Integrity
A saint’s life is in the hands of God as a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see; He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says, I cannot stand any more. But God does not heed; He goes on stretching until His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly.
– Oswald Chambers
Holiness
The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man godly, you are left with no option but to find God, and to know God, and to let God be God in and through you.
– Major Ian Thomas
Holiness
Many people think we become holy by the eradication of something evil within. No, we become holy by being separated unto God.
– Watchman Nee
Holiness
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
– C.S. Lewis
Holiness | Repentance | Worldliness
At the Day of Judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holy we have lived.
– Thomas a Kempis
Holiness
The God Who can change a sinner into a Christian by giving him His life can equally transform the fleshly Christian into a spiritual one by giving him His life more abundantly.
– Watchman Nee
Holiness | Conversion | Transformation
If you want to be holy, be kind.
– Frederick Buechner
Holiness | Kindness
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.
– Charles H. Brent
Holiness | Transformation | Righteousness
The Christian is called out from the world. His life is not to be as the lives of those about him.
– Harry Ironside
Christians | Holiness
To live “to and for yourself” is to “walk after the flesh”! To live “to and for Christ” is to “walk after the Spirit”!
– Major Ian Thomas
Holiness
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
– Oswald Chambers
Holiness
The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.
– A. W. Tozer
Holiness | Growth
It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Holiness
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.
– Blaise Pascal
Holiness | The Heart
God does not want you to become a Go; he wants you to become godly – taking on his values, attitudes, and character.
– Rick Warren
Holiness | Attitude
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
– David Brainerd
Holiness | Passion
Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God’s judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.
– J. C. Ryle
Holiness | Scripture
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
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Let us pray God that he would root out of our hearts everything of our own planting and set out there, with his own hand, the tree of life bearing all manner of fruits.
– Francois Fenelon
Holiness
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
– Alexander MacLaren
Faith | Holiness
You have to live with Him day by day, and year by year, and to learn to know Him as we learn to know husbands and wives, by continual experience of a sweet and unfailing love, by many a sacred hour of interchange of affection and reception of gifts and counsels.
– Alexander MacLaren
Holiness
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
– Augustine
Holiness
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart… If a man in his heart is right with God, God will deal with the problem.
– Alan Redpath
Holiness | The Heart
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
– Alexander MacLaren
Faith | Holiness
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it’s a spiritual fight.
– Charles Stanley
Holiness
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
– George Whitefield
Holiness | The Heart
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
– Charles Spurgeon
Church | Holiness | Power
Ordinary human motives will appeal in vain to the ears which have heard the tones of the heavenly music; and all the pomp of life will show poor and tawdry to the sight that has gazed on the vision of the great white throne and the crystal sea.
– Alexander MacLaren
Holiness
The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart… If a man in his heart is right with God, God will deal with the problem.
– Alan Redpath
Holiness | The Heart
If you have felt the power and authority of the word upon your conscience; if you can say as David, “Thy word hath quickened me.” Christian, bless God that he has not only given thee his word to be a rule of holiness, but his grace to be a principle of holiness.
– Thomas Watson
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Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness | Rewards
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is impossible to obtain a Scriptural knowledge that the merits of Christ’s finished work are reckoned to my account, except by proving that the efficacy of the Holy Spirit’s work is evident in my soul.
– A. W. Pink
Justification | Sanctification | Holiness
The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.
– Watchman Nee
Holiness | Attitude
We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
– J.I. Packer
Holiness | Light
To become like Christ is the only thing in the world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly, and all lower achievement vain. Those only who make this quest the supreme desire and passion of their lives can even begin to hope to reach it.
– Henry Drummond
Holiness
Holiness consists of three things – separation from sin, dedication to God, transformation into Christ’s image. It is in vain that we talk about the last, unless we know something experimentally about the first.
– James H. Aughey
Holiness | Transformation
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Holiness
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Self-denial | Holiness
O Lord, keep our hearts, keep our eyes, keep our feet, and keep our tongues.
– William Tiptaft
Purity | Holiness
Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.
– Dave Hunt
Holiness
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.
– Augustine
Godliness | Holiness
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
– William Law
Prayer | Holiness
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
– A. B. Simpson
Holiness | The Heart
There is only one thing greater than happiness in the world, and that is holiness; and it is not in our keeping; but what God HAS put in our power is the happiness of those about us, and that is largely to be secured by our being kind to them.
– Henry Drummond
Happiness | Holiness
If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live ‘worthy’ of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.
– Philip Yancey
Gratitude | Holiness
The greatest test of whether the holiness we profess to seek or to attain is truth and life will be whether it produces an increasing humility in us. In man, humility is the one thing needed to allow God’s holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is lack of humility. The holiest will be the humblest.
– Andrew Murray
Holiness | Humility
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
– C.S. Lewis
Holiness | Happiness
Free and warm reception into the divine favor is the strongest of all motives in leading a man to seek conformity to Him who has thus freely forgiven him all trespasses.
– Horatius Bonar
Holiness
Remember that holiness is not the way to Christ, but Christ is the way to holiness.
– James H. Aughey
Holiness
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Holiness
If he but casts one longing glance it is sufficient to disclose to us that he does not truly recognize where the world stands in relation to the cross. Only after one is actually willing to offer his soul life to death will he be fit to follow the “Sermon on the Mount” without flinching.
– Watchman Nee
Holiness | The Cross
Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh….Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.
– A. W. Tozer
Holiness | The Holy Spirit | The Heart
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Holiness
In spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it.
– Thomas Adams
Holiness
Grant Lord that we may be made right in doctrine, right in experience, and right in practice.
– William Tiptaft
Holiness
Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to an implicit and unquestionable obedience must become the essential characteristic of our lives.
– Andrew Murray
Obedience | Holiness | Surrender
The chief design of my life in the station wherein the good providence of God hath placed me, are, that mortification and universal holiness may be promoted in my own and in the hearts and ways of others, to the glory of God; that so the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be adorned in all things.
– John Owen
Holiness | The Gospel
What a mercy to be made right in doctrine, right in experience, and right in practice!
– William Tiptaft
Holiness
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Holiness | Purity
Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: “No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.”
– Andrew Murray
Prayer | Holiness
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Holiness | Faith
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Holiness
Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins and art born of God, unless thou canst prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy.
– William Gurnall
Holiness
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; holy prayers and spiritual comfort; and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity.
– Jeremy Taylor
Holiness | Wisdom | Comfort
Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.
– Assorted Authors
Faith | Holiness | Disappointment
If every attribute of the Deity were a distinct member, holiness would be the soul to animate them. Without holiness His patience would be an indulgence to sin, His mercy a fondness, His wrath a madness, His power a tyranny, His wisdom an unworthy subtlety. Holiness gives decorum to them all.
– Stephen Charnock
Holiness
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
– Henry Drummond
Holiness
Thou must be righteous and holy, before thou canst live righteously and holily.
– William Gurnall
Righteousness | Holiness
The Sum is: 1. Remember always the presence of God. 2. Rejoice always in the will of God. And 3. Direct all to the glory of God.
– Robert Leighton
Holiness