Quotes on Holiness

"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."
- R.C. Sproul

"When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude."  
- Ravi Zacharias

"But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight only that will melt and humble the hearts of men, wean them from the world, draw them to God, and effectually change them. 
A sight of the awful greatness of God may overpower men's strength, and be more than they can endure; but if the moral beauty of God be hid, the enmity of the heart will remain in its full strength. No love will be enkindled..."
- Jonathan Edwards

"There is no holiness without a Christ-centered, Christ-seeking, Christ-serving, Christ-adoring heart."
- J.I. Packer

"Pray fervently or you do nothing. Cold praying is no more prayer than a painting of fire is fire. How can prayers that do not even warm your own heart move God´s?... Elijah´s prayer called fire down from heaven because it carried fire up to heaven."
- William Gurnall

" 21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 
 22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight."
- Saint Paul, Colossians 1