Jonathan Edwards on Holiness

The true beauty and loveliness of all intelligent beings does primarily and most essentially consist in their moral excellency or holiness.

The saints desire the sincere milk of the word, not so much to testify God's love to them, as that they may grow thereby in holiness.

Holiness and happiness are in the fruit, here and hereafter, because God dwells in them, and they in God.

There is not only a rational belief that God is holy and that holiness is a good thing, but there is a sense of the loveliness of God’s holiness.