“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.”1 – Nancy Leigh DeMoss
“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
“We cannot be satisfied with our goodness after beholding the holiness of God.” – Billy Graham
“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
“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
“But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.” – Jerry Bridges
“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
“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
“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
“Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.” – Jerry Bridges
“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, not happiness, is the chief end of man.” – Oswald Chambers
“God’s holiness demands that sin be punished—but God’s love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.” – Billy Graham
“Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.” – A. W. Tozer
“To summarize, then, it appears that Christian holiness is a number of things together. It has both outward and inward aspects. Holiness is a matter of both action and motivation, conduct and character, divine grace and human effort, obedience and creativity, submission and initiative, consecration to God and commitment to people, self-discipline and self-giving, righteousness and love. It is a matter of Spirit-led law-keeping, a walk, or course of life, in the Spirit that displays the fruit of the Spirit (Christlikeness of attitude and disposition). It is a matter of seeking to imitate Jesus’ way of behaving, through depending on Jesus for deliverance from carnal self-absorption and for discernment of spiritual needs and possibilities.” – J. I. Packer
“If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.” – R. C. Sproul
“As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.” – Jerry Bridges
“God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us: holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.” – Elisabeth Elliot
“The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.” – C. S. Lewis
“There were some things that settled into my heart very early into my life and ministry… The two most dominant realities that captivated my heart very early in my Christian experience were the authority of Scripture and the necessity of holiness.” – John MacArthur
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
210 Quotes About Holiness | ChristianQuotes.info