492 Quotes About Holiness

Being holistic doesn't mean mumbling mystical mumbo-jumbo all the time, it means seeing the reality as it is, without giving in to either supernatural nonsense or intellectual arrogance.

Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

Sin contaminates our lives. Holiness purifies our lives.

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.

Worshipping stones, symbols and images is an act of self-preservation, nothing more, whereas serving the people, the society, the living Gods, is the act of humanity, it's the act of real, practical divinity of a civilized society.

The fundamental challenge of ancient man was to be wise. The fundamental challenge of medieval man was to be holy. The fundamental challenge of modern man was to be effective. The fundamental challenge of contemporary man is not to be ridiculous.

He had never been an artistic man. He had never been a fastidious man. He had got pleasure from smelling at dung-hills, from making water in his wife's garden, from snuffing up the sweet sweat of those he loved. He had no cruelty, no culture, no ambition, no breeding, no refinement, no curiosity, no conceit. He believed that there was a borderland of the miraculous round everything that existed and that "everything that lived was holy.

Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom