Samuel Logan Brengle

Holiness is not absolute perfection, which belongs to God only; nor is it Angelic perfection; nor is it Adamic perfection – for, no doubt, Adam had a perfect head as well as a perfect heart before he sinned against God. But it is a Christian perfection – such perfection and obedience of the heart as a poor fallen creature, aided by the almighty power and boundless grace, can give. It is the state of heart and life which consists in being and doing all the time, not by fits and starts, but steadily – just what God wants us to be and do.