“Don’t take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.” – Billy Graham1
“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
“The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.” ― George MacDonald
“Christ’s death is the Christian’s life. Christ’s cross is the Christian’s title to heaven. Christ ‘lifted up’ and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians ‘enter into the holiest,’ and are at length landed in glory.” ― J.C. Ryle
“God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us: holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.” – Elisabeth Elliot
“Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God.” – David Brainerd
“Salvation is free, but as the seven churches in Revelation discovered, there is a cost to living authentic lives of holiness in a godless culture.” Erwin W. Lutzer
“There is no holiness without a Christ-centered, Christ-seeking, Christ-serving, Christ-adoring heart.” – J. I. Packer
“Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.” – Mother Teresa
“One of the ‘talents’ God has given to every Christian is the possibility of walking in holiness, being free from the dominion of sin.” – Jerry Bridges
“Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding–He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.” – Alan Redpath
“No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.” – A. W. Tozer
“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.” – Nancy Leigh DeMoss
“The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 … obeyed by faith … obedience is the pathway to holiness … no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.” – Jerry Bridges
“As I read the Bible, I seem to find holiness to be [Christ’s] supreme attribute.” – Billy Graham
“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
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below: