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Holiness: Quotations from Burning Words

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.— F. W. FABER

Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with the hands of love to men. It is faith gone to work. It is charity coined into actions, and devotion breathing benedictions on human suffering, while it goes up in intercession to the Father of all piety.— F. D. HUNTINGTON

And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.— F. W. ROBERTSON

The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.— JOHN ANGEL JAMES

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.— JOHN ANGEL JAMES

I make it my constant prayer that God would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion; without a humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.— GEORGE WASHINGTON

How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety ! A man's life is an appendix to his heart.— JOHN FLAVEL

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.— H. CLAY TRUMBULL

God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.— C. H. SPURGEON,

Harbor no thought, neither do any act you would be unwilling the whole world should know.— ALBERT MATTHEWS

Must it come through trial is suffering the only way in which holiness can be reached ? Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.— UPHAM

What Christianity in her antagonism with every form of unbelief most needs is holy living.— CHRISTLIEB

The narrow way, the way of holiness, not only leads to life, but it is life. Walking there, serene are our days, peaceful our nights, happy-high above the disorders and miseries of a wretched world-shall be our hourly communion with God; happy - full of assurance, of calm and sacred triumph, shall be our dying hour.— RICHARD FULLER

We must keep up the standard of Christian living in the Christian laborer. Clean hands are needed to do Christian work. Character is before co-operation, being before doing. "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine."— JOHN HALL

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.— C. H. SPURGEON

Are angels my attendants? Then I should walk worthy of my companionship. Am I so soon to go and dwell with angels? Then I should be pure. Are these feet so soon to tread the courts of heaven? Is this tongue so soon to unite with heavenly beings in praising God? Are these eyes so soon to look on the throne of eternal glory, and on the ascended Redeemer ? Then these feet and eyes and lips should be pure and holy; and I should be dead to the world, and live for heaven.— ALBERT BARNES

* If it be heaven toward which we journey, it will be holiness in which we delight; for if we cannot now rejoice in having God for our portion, where is our meetness for a world in which God is to be all in all forever and forever?— HENRY MELVILL

O, for a voice of power to arouse the human spirit from its death in life of animality, to quicken it with a fit consciousness of its own nature, to lift it to an adequate comprehension of the purposes for which the sublime thoughts of God, of duty, of disinterested love, of heaven are opened within !— W. E. CHANNING

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.— RICHARD ALLEINE

Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy - not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness - but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.— CHALMERS

Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.— FENELON,