32 quotes found
“The children of Spirit are laughing, cursing, chatting, walking and running. They ooze holiness in all that they are and do.”
“The pleasure of sins is pain in the soul.”
“Reject sin, seek righteousness.”
“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.”
“In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.”
“Holiness was always something richly dim.”
“THE LIGHT THAT NOW REFLECTS FROM WITHIN YOU RADIATES PURITY AND HOLINESS, WHICH CAUSES US TO BECOME A LIGHT TO THE WORLD.”
“That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.”
“Our hope doesn't rest on our finally getting it together. Our hope rests in Jesus. Jesus in us. It's Christ in us, the hope of glory. Paul says, To them God has chosen to make known among the Genti...”
“As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it...”
“There is no less holiness at this time- as you are reading this- than there was on the day the Red Sea parted, or that day in the 30th year, in the 4th month, on the 5th day of the month as Ezekiel...”
“When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy.”
“The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.”
“Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.”
“W. S. Plumer said, We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government t...”
“The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.”
“Purpose, meaning, and hope are the edge of a coin; on one side is imprinted the image of God; and on the other is self As complicated as life seems at times, the mystery of fulfillment and the par...”
“There are different kinds of fear. One of the most terrible is the sensation that you are likely to become, at any moment, the protagonist in a Graham Greene novel: the man who tries to be virtuous...”
“Sin is incompatible with the glory, beauty and holiness of God.”
“We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the ...”
