All Quotes By Tag: Holiness

“The spirit of Christ dwells in a holy body.”

“For lack of knowledge of the Holy One, we perish in sin of hell.”

“The so-called holy warriors are driven by a cause, no matter how disgustingly barbarian that cause be. If only we the conscientious humans were as driven as them, by our urge for real peace and real harmony, then we could, for real, not in theory, live in a world of pure compassion and hatelessness.”

“Love is holiness.”

“Holiness was always something richly dim.”

“If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world as a potential threat, and if we emulated Jesus’ example in accepting the faith and the courage of those who live beyond conventional standards of purity, well, I can hardly imagine how things would look.”

“A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.”

“The only wisdom is to fear God.”

“Seek your higher life, the holy heavenly living.”

“That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against….We must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if He is to give us daily relief.”

“The righteous God promotes the cause of righteousness.”

“The fear of a man is a snare. But the fear of God is a safe haven.”

“Let the Kingdom be always before you, and believe with certainty and consistency the things that are yet unseen. Let nothing that is on this side of eternal life get inside you.”

“In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.”

“Holy solitaries’ is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.”