The holier a man is, the more does he estimate prayer; the clearer does he see that God gives himself to the praying ones, and that the measure of God’s revelation to the soul is the measure of the soul’s longing, importunate prayer for God.
Holiness
Dr Jim Richards
It is not a fear of God hurting us; it is the fear of breaking God’s heart and hurting our relationship. At this point some would say, “but I’m in Christ, nothing can hurt our relationship.” This is a person who has a doctrinal arrangement, not a relationship. Maybe we need to rethink and realize nothing can hurt my standing but disrespect and unfaithfulness can hurt the relationship.
Charles Colson
It is time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are “defeated” by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient. It might be well if we stopped using the terms “victory” and “defeat” to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms “obedience” and “disobedience.
John Kent
Shortcuts to holiness have a way of turning out to have been a wrong turning.
Bill Johnson
Integrity is the expression of God’s character seen in us. And that character is His holiness. Holiness is the essence of His nature. It is not something He does or doesn’t do. It is who He is. It is the same for us. We are holy because the nature of God is in us. It begins with a heart separated unto God, and becomes evident in the Christ nature seen through us.
Eugene H. Peterson
To guard against all such blasphemous chumminess with the Almighty, the Bible talks of the fear of the Lord – not to scare us but to bring us to awesome attention before the overwhelming grandeur of God.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
What gives us conviction of sin is not the number of sins we have committed; it is the sight of the holiness of God.
John Owen
Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy…Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace.
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds
We put it as our most sober judgment that the great need of the Church in this and all ages is men of such commanding faith, of such unsullied holiness, of such marked spiritual vigor and consuming zeal, that their prayers, faith, lives, and ministry will be of such a radical and aggressive form as to work spiritual revolutions which will form eras in individual and Church life.
Tony Evans
Holiness is the centerpiece of God’s attributes. Of all the things God is, at the centre of His being, God is holy. Never in the Bible is God called, “love, love, love,” or “eternal, eternal, eternal,” or “truth, truth, truth.” On this aspect of His character, God has laid the most stress.