Quotes on Holiness

Let obedience, the listening to and the doing the will of God, be the joy and the glory of your life; it will give you access unto the Holiness of God.

Faith in Jesus is the secret of a holy life: all holy conduct, all really holy deeds, are the fruit of faith in Jesus as our holiness.

It is the New Life that is the holy life: the full apprehension of it in faith, the full surrender to it in conduct, will be the highway of holiness.

The love of Christ casts not out the love of relatives, but it sanctifies our creature love, and makes it sweeter far.

Our court-dress in heaven, and our garment of sanctification for daily wear, are the condescending gifts of Christ's love.

Your business is to seek Christ crucified for yourselves, not to take the representation of another man concerning the power of grace to subdue corruption and to sanctify the heart.

God knows the heart of man and will only reveal Himself to those who are pure in heart.

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

To many minds there is the greatest shrinking from appearing peculiar; but God would often have His people unmistakably peculiar.

Where that blessing is not enjoyed, there is always something unreal or defective in the consecration.

We have to take our choice: we cannot enjoy both the world and CHRIST.

We are not to think that our holiest service is free from sin, or can be accepted save through JESUS CHRIST our LORD.

Christ indeed cannot reign, where sin reigns; neither will he dwell where any sin is allowed.

Faith is the condition, and the only condition, of sanctification, exactly as it is of justification.

Every action of a Christian that is good, is sanctified by the word and prayer.

The righteousness of Christ is doubtless necessary for any soul that enters into glory: But so is personal holiness too, for every child of man.

Outward religion may be where inward is not; but if there is none without, there can be none within.

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.

No man rejoices safely unless he has within him the testimony of a good conscience.

A spiritual man quickly recollects himself because he has never wasted his attention upon externals.

To walk with God interiorly, to be free from any external affection—this is the state of the inward man.