492 Quotes About Holiness

Don't live your whole life on holy crutches.

Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.

Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account, as it were, the porch of religion; the next, the door; the third, religion itself.

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.

That 'creature,' that 'woman of loose behaviour' is perhaps holier than you are yourselves, you monks who are seeking salvation! She fell perhaps in her youth, ruined by her environment. But she loved much and Christ himself forgave the woman 'who loved much.

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

they climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness

If you understand what holiness is, you come to see that real happiness is on the far side of holiness, not the near side.

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?