#holiness

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. ↗

— William Law

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No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. ↗

— Matthew Henry

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Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially. ↗

— Erwin W. Lutzer

#holiness #forgiveness

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

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Look into the eyes of those around you, they are just as you are, sacred, precious, and worth of been treated as such. ↗

— Martin Suarez

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Believe in the holy contour of life ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life #life

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. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

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Be not covetous of worldly honors, for you will have honor enough, even from wicked men, if your lives are “holiness unto the Lord. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#guilt #holiness #union-with-christ #motivational

The simplistic way of not conforming is to see what is in style in our culture and then do the opposite. If short hair is in vogue, the nonconformist wears long hair. If going to the movies is popular, then Christians avoid movies as “worldly.” The extreme case of this may be seen in groups that refuse to wear buttons or use electricity because such things, too, are worldly. A superficial style of nonconformity is the classical pharisaical trap. The kingdom of God is not about buttons, movies, or dancing. The concern of God is not focused on what we eat or what we drink. The call of nonconformity is a call to a deeper level of righteousness, that goes beyond externals. When piety is defined exclusively in terms of externals, the whole point of the apostle’s teaching has been lost. Somehow we have failed to hear Jesus’ words that it is not what goes into a person’s mouth that deflies a person, but what comes out of that mouth. We still want to make the kingdom a matter of eating and drinking. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#nonconformity #movies